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A former Northrop Grumman plant that once produced airplanes has become cosmetics giant L’Oréal USA‘s second U.S. headquarters.
The company held a grand opening Tuesday, Aug. 23 for the 100,000-square-foot facility at 888 N. Douglas St. in El Segundo.
The facility is situated on a 25-acre “creative campus” developed by Los Angeles landlord Hackman Capital Partners with design work by the architectural firm Gensler. The campus will soon include a global headquarters for Beyond Meat, which is expected to open its 280,000-square-foot facility in September.
The L’Oréal USA building was developed by Hackman Capital along with the architecture and interior design from Studio Blitz. It houses a variety of office operations, ranging from development, marketing and sales, to creative planning and e-commerce.
Part of L’Oréal’s operations are housed in a revamped airplane hangar, where the trendy building already employs about 500 workers, officials said.
The company’s El Segundo headquarters began operation in June, bringing together teams from the company’s California-based brands that were previously housed in Los Angeles, Encino, Newport Beach and elsewhere in El Segundo. The teams represent L’Oréal’s NYX Professional Makeup, Urban Decay, Youth to the People, and Pulp Riot lines.
The company’s other headquarters is in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan, which opened in June 2016.
The El Segundo facility is also home to L’Oréal’s first West Coast-based Professional Products Academy. The school offers education in hair styling techniques, as well as skills and training related to certification classes.
The academy currently has 40 students who are taking everything from half-day sessions to classes spanning two or three days.
David Greenberg, L’Oréal USA’s president and CEO, said El Segundo was a logical choice for the new headquarters given its proximity to Los Angeles International Airport and the caliber of companies already doing business there.
“Every single L’Oréal brand now has a home here in California,” he said. “This is a startup culture of music, TV and film, and all of these are super linked to beauty.”
The new L’Oréal facility — with natural light coming from skylights in the building’s 45-foot ceilings — includes indoor and outdoor workspaces with expansive patio areas. It also has a wellness and exercise studio, a company store, networking and collaboration spaces, onsite dining and catering options operated by Wolfgang Puck.
The El Segundo headquarters was built to reflect L’Oréal USA’s new hybrid working schedule, allowing employees to work three days in the office and two from home. Like scores of other companies, L’Oréal shifted to a hybrid model because of workplace restrictions imposed in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve found this is a fantastic way to give people flexibility to manage their lives while still keeping a connection to the company and its teams,” Greenberg said. “But it’s still important for us to have people together, so we’ve created an environment that’s really appealing to be in.”
Eric Chan, president of the El Segundo Economic Development Corp, said L’Oréal is a welcome addition.
“It shows continued support from corporations and organizations to invest in El Segundo,” he said.
Chan noted the city is already home to such major companies as Boeing Co., Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Mattel, Chevron and Beyond Meat, among others. And that roster is expanding.
The Los Angeles Chargers recently broke ground on a 14-acre corporate headquarters and training facility along Nash Street that’s slated for completion in July 2024.
A subsidiary of L’Oréal Group, L’Oréal USA employs more than 11,000 people with administrative, research, manufacturing and distribution facilities across 16 states. The company has manufacturing operations in Florence, Ky., North Little Rock, Ark., Piscataway, N.J., and Franklin, N.J.
Data from Statistica show the U.S. cosmetics and beauty industry has held its own during the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistica estimates the industry is currently generating $49 billion in revenue, down slightly from $49.2 billion in 2021, $49.5 billion in 2019 and $50 billion in 2018 before the health crisis took hold.
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If Arte Moreno, the owner of the Los Angeles Angeles, sells the franchise he has controlled for 20 years, as the billionaire has announced he will seek to do, his eventual successor will face myriad questions about the ball club’s future.
Most will likely center on the new owner’s plans to turn the perennial underachievers into World Series contenders.
But there could also be a non-baseball question in the mix, one uttered with a hint of temptation:
How familiar are you with Long Beach — and have you seen what it offers?
For about the last four years, Long Beach has periodically popped up as a hopeful landing spot for the Angels if the team were ever to leave Anaheim, with officials for Los Angeles County’s second-largest city hinting as recently as May that they would like to be home to the Major League Baseball franchise, valued at more than $2 billion.
Any suggestion that Long Beach could land the Angels, however, will remain, for now, firmly in the realm of speculation.
For one, Long Beach officials were not available for comment on Tuesday, Aug. 23, the day Moreno announced he will seek to sell the team. And for another, the Angels are at least months, but more likely years, away from getting a new owner.
But it’s not like Long Beach officials haven’t previously pitched the franchise on the benefits of moving about 22 miles west.
“The Long Beach waterfront downtown has always been the perfect location for a major league sports stadium,” Mayor Robert Garcia said in a May email. “If any sports team is interested in engaging the city we would welcome those discussions.”
That wink-and-a-nod statement came the day after the Anaheim City Council voided a deal to sell Angel Stadium and the surrounding land to Moreno, in a failed effort to keep the team in the Orange County town well into the future.
Of course, even without that deal, the Angels seem likely to stay in Anaheim at least through the decade. The team currently has a lease with Anaheim to play at Angel Stadium through 2029, with an option to stay as late as 2038.
Long Beach, though, doesn’t currently have any concrete plans for redeveloping the 13-acre Elephant Lot, a parking area near the Long Beach Arena that city officials have identified as a possible spot for a new stadium.
And officials for the seaside metropolis have coveted the Angels — or any major sports team, for that matter — since at least 2019.
At that time, the Angels had opted out of its lease with the city to explore, according to team officials, all of its options for where to play its home games in the future.
In February 2019, Long Beach officials swooped in, trying to lure the Angels away from Anaheim.
“We are in the early stages of our due diligence and are exploring a variety of options for this property,” Garcia said in a statement at the time. “We have approached the Angels to express our interest and discuss the possibilities of this opportunity. This is very preliminary and discussions are ongoing.”
That location may not be ideal, experts said then, with the waterfront spot potentially lacking enough transportation and parking options, and the overall size being perhaps too small.
And building a new stadium isn’t cheap.
Preliminary estimates in 2019 pegged the price of a new stadium at $900 million to $1 billion. That did not include provisions for fan parking when the downtown area already is short on parking.
The area near the Elephant Lot, however, does have a lot to offer: The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, the Aquarium of the Pacific, and a thriving — and walkable — downtown filled with bars, restaurants and even a Ferris wheel.
And Garcia, who is currently running for Congress, has made no secret of wanting to redevelop the elephant lot, which is the city’s largest undeveloped parcel.
The Elephant Lot is currently used as parking for events at the Long Beach Arena and Convention Center, and as part of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach course. It also is earmarked for use as an event venue for the 2028 Olympics.
The 2019 negotiations quickly broke down. And Moreno opted to keep the Angels in Anaheim, spending the past two years crafting a deal to buy the stadium and surrounding land.
But the Anaheim City Council nixed the $320 million deal — dubbed as the largest land sale in that city’s history — in May in the wake of an FBI corruption investigation and the resignation of then Mayor Harry Sidhu, who is accused of giving the Angels inside information in an attempt to get a large campaign donation.
When that news broke, Long Beach officials confirmed that while no negotiations had occurred since the initial 2019 discussions, they would be willing to restart them.
“The city of Long Beach has long sought to activate the 13-acre Elephant Lot parcel next to the Convention Center for a project that can bring significant community benefit, additional activation of the Downtown waterfront and benefits to the coastal region,” the city said in a May 25 statement. “If the Angels are interested in continuing those initial discussions, Long Beach would reengage in those discussions and seek direction from the City Council.”
Staff writers Jeff Fletcher and Harry Saltzgaver contributed to this report.
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By Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise | Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s disgraced former House Speaker Glen Casada and his top aide were arrested Tuesday on federal charges including bribery, kickbacks and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Their indictments follow the abrupt resignation in March of Republican Rep. Robin Smith, who pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges involving Casada and his chief of staff, Cade Cothren. Speculation has swirled about what additional charges might come in the corruption probe.
FBI agents arrested Casada and Cothren at their homes Tuesday morning. If convicted, they each face up to 20 years in prison. Both pleaded not guilty Tuesday and received pretrial release with travel restricted to the middle district of Tennessee unless otherwise approved.
The 20-count charging document alleges Casada and Cothren exploited their positions of power by working with another unnamed lawmaker to funnel money to themselves using a political consulting firm — known as Phoenix Solutions, LLC — to conceal their involvement.
Cothren registered the firm in New Mexico because the state allows anonymous registration of LLCs, and rebuffed requests for in-person meetings with Casada’s fellow lawmakers, saying the company representatives were out of state.
The trio deceived other Tennessee lawmakers in a conspiracy “to enrich themselves by obtaining bribes and kickbacks from Cothren, in exchange for securing the approval of Phoenix Solutions as a mailer program vendor,” a Justice Department news release said.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton, who succeeded his fellow Republican in the leadership post, was among several lawmakers and former or current staffers to testify in front of a grand jury in March. Sexton commended the FBI on Tuesday, saying he will continue assisting in the investigation if a trial is needed. Smith also promised to cooperate as a potential witness.
Revelations about the case also prompted lawmakers to pass tougher state campaign finance and ethics requirements this year.
“Today is a good day for Tennesseans because we did not turn a blind eye on these criminal activities,” Sexton said.
Casada resigned as speaker in 2019 but held onto his seat after revelations that he and Cothren had exchanged sexually explicit text messages about women years earlier. He is not running for reelection this year. Cothren lost his legislative job in the texting scandal, but remained involved in Republican politics.
FBI agents searched the homes and offices of several state lawmakers in January 2021, including those of Casada and Smith, and the home of Cothren.
The charging documents revealed Tuesday say Cothren launched Phoenix Solutions with Smith’s and Casada’s “knowledge and support” to offer mail and consulting services to lawmakers. All three claimed the firm was run by a “Matthew Phoenix” when in fact it was a made-up alias for Cothren, and Casada knew the name was fictitious, the documents allege.
The documents allege Smith emailed Cothren at one point saying he “may have to assume the role of Matthew again.” He replied saying, “Matthew, reporting for duty!” and included a GIF of “a salute from Harrison Ford’s character Han Solo in the movie Star Wars,” officials said.
Federal investigators said a separate text exchange showed Casada texted Cothren in late 2019 saying “I think this is starting off well I’m pleased!” Cothren later cautioned that “we just have to make sure no one knows it’s me involved,” they said.
When Casada raised concerns about lawmakers wanting “representatives from Phoenix” to make an in-person presentation, Cothren responded that they would remind lawmakers “they live in New Mexico. Will have to get on the phone for it and I could disguise my voice if I has (sic) to.”
Phoenix Solutions received roughly $52,000 from the state in payments associated with the mailer program, according to the charging documents.
Meanwhile, Cothren continues to fight a subpoena over the state campaign finance regulators’ investigation into the Faith Family Freedom Fund PAC.
Ahead of the 2020 GOP primary election, the political action committee targeted then-Rep. Rick Tillis, the brother of North Carolina U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis. Rick Tillis lost to Republican Rep. Todd Warner, who was among those subject to the FBI searches in January 2021.
The Tennessee Registry of Election Finance decided to reopen its probe into the PAC after its treasurer testified in January that she is Cothren’s former girlfriend and opened the PAC because Cothren asked her to. She said Cothren assured her she was doing nothing wrong and that she took no further action.
Cothren has informed the registry that he is invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and won’t abide by its subpoena. The registry handed the case off to state prosecutors. The state has sued over Cothren’s refusal.
Casada also was subpoenaed, and told the registry he wasn’t involved with the PAC. Casada opted to run for Williamson County clerk this year instead of his statehouse seat, and lost in the GOP primary.
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Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.
The disclosure, sent last month to Congress and federal agencies, paints a picture of a chaotic and reckless environment at a mismanaged company that allows too many of its staff access to the platform’s central controls and most sensitive information without adequate oversight. It also alleges that some of the company’s senior-most executives have been trying to cover up Twitter’s serious vulnerabilities, and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service.
The whistleblower, who has agreed to be publicly identified, is Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who was previously the company’s head of security, reporting directly to the CEO. Zatko further alleges that Twitter’s leadership has misled its own board and government regulators about its security vulnerabilities, including some that could allegedly open the door to foreign spying or manipulation, hacking and disinformation campaigns. The whistleblower also alleges Twitter does not reliably delete users’ data after they cancel their accounts, in some cases because the company has lost track of the information, and that it has misled regulators about whether it deletes the data as it is required to do. The whistleblower also says Twitter executives don’t have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to. Bots have recently become central to Elon Musk’s attempts to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company (although Twitter denies Musk’s claims).
Zatko was fired by Twitter in January for what the company claims was poor performance. According to Zatko, his public whistleblowing comes after he attempted to flag the security lapses to Twitter’s board and to help Twitter fix years of technical shortcomings and alleged non-compliance with an earlier privacy agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. Zatko is being represented by Whistleblower Aid, the same group that represented Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
John Tye, founder of Whistleblower Aid and Zatko’s lawyer, told CNN that Zatko has not been in contact with Musk, and said Zatko began the whistleblower process before there was any indication of Musk’s involvement with Twitter.
After this article was initially published, Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told CNN, “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko, and we found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding.”
CNN sought comment from Twitter on more than 50 specific questions regarding the disclosure.
In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN that security and privacy are both longtime priorities for the company. Twitter also said the company provides clear tools for users to control privacy, ad targeting and data sharing, and added that it has created internal workflows to ensure users know that when they cancel their accounts, Twitter will deactivate the accounts and start a deletion process. Twitter declined to say whether it typically completes the process.
“Mr. Zatko was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance,” the Twitter spokesperson said. “What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context. Mr. Zatko’s allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders. Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be.”
Some of Zatko’s most damning claims spring from his apparently tense relationship with Parag Agrawal, the company’s former chief technology officer who was made CEO after Jack Dorsey stepped down last November. According to the disclosure, Agrawal and his lieutenants repeatedly discouraged Zatko from providing a full accounting of Twitter’s security problems to the company’s board of directors. The company’s executive team allegedly instructed Zatko to provide an oral report of his initial findings on the company’s security condition to the board rather than a detailed written account, ordered Zatko to knowingly present cherry-picked and misrepresented data to create the false perception of progress on urgent cybersecurity issues, and went behind Zatko’s back to have a third-party consulting firm’s report scrubbed to hide the true extent of the company’s problems.
The disclosure is generally much kinder to Dorsey, who hired Zatko and whom Zatko believes wanted to see the problems within the company fixed. But it does depict him as extremely disengaged in his final months leading Twitter — so much so that some senior staff even considered the possibility he was sick.
CNN has reached out to Dorsey for comment. A person familiar with Zatko’s tenure at Twitter told CNN the company investigated several claims he brought forward around the time he was fired, and ultimately found them unpersuasive; the person added that Zatko at times lacked understanding of Twitter’s FTC obligations.
Zatko believes his firing was in retaliation for his sounding the alarm about the company’s security problems.
The scathing disclosure, which totals around 200 pages, including supporting exhibits — was sent last month to a number of US government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The existence and details of the disclosure have not previously been reported. CNN obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill. The SEC, DOJ and FTC declined to comment; the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a copy of the report, is taking the disclosure seriously and is setting a meeting to discuss the allegations, according to Rachel Cohen, a committee spokesperson.
Sen. Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and also received the report, vowed to investigate “and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the same panel’s top Republican and an avid Twitter user, also expressed deep concerns about the allegations in a statement to CNN.
“Take a tech platform that collects massive amounts of user data, combine it with what appears to be an incredibly weak security infrastructure and infuse it with foreign state actors with an agenda, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster,” Grassley said. “The claims I’ve received from a Twitter whistleblower raise serious national security concerns as well as privacy issues, and they must be investigated further.”
The Whistleblower
Zatko first came to national attention in 1998 when he took part in the first congressional hearings on cybersecurity.
“All my life, I’ve been about finding places where I can go and make a difference. I’ve done that through the security field. That’s my main lever,” he told CNN in an interview earlier this month.
The events leading to his decision to become a whistleblower began before he worked at Twitter, with a devastating hack in 2020 in which the Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most famous people, including then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Musk, were compromised. Twitter told CNN that in response to the incident, the company began compartmentalizing access to customer support tools.
After the attack, Dorsey recruited Zatko, a well-known “ethical hacker” turned cybersecurity insider and executive who previously held senior roles at Google, Stripe and the US Department of Defense, and who told CNN that he’d been offered a senior, day-one cyber position in the Biden administration.
What Zatko says he found was a company with extraordinarily poor security practices, including giving thousands of the company’s employees — amounting to roughly half the company’s workforce — access to some of the platform’s critical controls. His disclosure describes his overall findings as “egregious deficiencies, negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security and democracy.”
After the January 6 insurrection, Zatko was concerned about the possibility someone within Twitter who sympathized with the insurrectionists could try to manipulate the company’s platform, according to his disclosure. He sought to clamp down on internal access that allows Twitter engineers to make changes to the platform, known as the “production environment.”
But, the disclosure says, Zatko soon learned “it was impossible to protect the production environment. All engineers had access. There was no logging of who went into the environment or what they did…. Nobody knew where data lived or whether it was critical, and all engineers had some form of critical access to the production environment.” Twitter also lacked the ability to hold workers accountable for information security lapses because it has little control or visibility into employees’ individual work computers, Zatko claims, citing internal cybersecurity reports estimating that 4 in 10 devices do not meet basic security standards.
Twitter’s flimsy server infrastructure is a separate yet equally serious vulnerability, the disclosure claims. About half of the company’s 500,000 servers run on outdated software that does not support basic security features such as encryption for stored data or regular security updates by vendors, according to the letter to regulators and a February email Zatko wrote to Patrick Pichette, a Twitter board member, that is included in the disclosure.
The company also lacks sufficient redundancies and procedures to restart or recover from data center crashes, Zatko’s disclosure says, meaning that even minor outages of several data centers at the same time could knock the entire Twitter service offline, perhaps for good.
Twitter did not respond to questions about the risk of data center outages, but told CNN that people on Twitter’s engineering and product teams are authorized to access the production environment if they have a specific business justification for doing so. Twitter’s employees use devices overseen by other IT and security teams with the power to prevent a device from connecting to sensitive internal systems if it is running outdated software, Twitter added.
The company also said it uses automated checks to ensure laptops running outdated software cannot access the production environment, and that employees may only make changes to Twitter’s live product after the code meets certain record-keeping and review requirements.
Twitter has internal security tools that are tested by the company regularly, and every two years by external auditors, according to the person familiar with Zatko’s tenure at the company. The person added that some of Zatko’s statistics surrounding device security lacked credibility and were derived by a small team that did not properly account for Twitter’s existing security procedures.
But Twitter’s security concerns had come to light prior to 2020. In 2010, the FTC filed a complaint against Twitter for its mishandling of users’ private information and the issue of too many employees having access to Twitter’s central controls. The complaint resulted in an FTC consent order finalized the following year in which Twitter vowed to clean up its act, including by creating and maintaining “a comprehensive information security program.”
Zatko alleges that despite the company’s claims to the contrary, it had “never been in compliance” with what the FTC demanded more than 10 years ago. As a result of its alleged failures to address vulnerabilities raised by the FTC as well as other deficiencies, he says, Twitter suffers an “anomalously high rate of security incidents,” approximately one per week serious enough to require disclosure to government agencies. “Based on my professional experience, peer companies do not have this magnitude or volume of incidents,” Zatko wrote in a February letter to Twitter’s board after he was fired by Twitter in January.
The stakes of Zatko’s disclosure are enormous. It could lead to billions of dollars in new fines for Twitter if it’s found to have violated its legal obligations, according to Jon Leibowitz, who was chair of the FTC at the time of Twitter’s original 2011 consent order.
The agency now has another opportunity to show the tech industry it is serious about holding platforms accountable, Leibowitz added, after officials opted not to name top Facebook execs including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg in the FTC’s $5 billion privacy settlement with that company in 2019.
“One of the big disappointments in the Facebook order violation case was that the FTC let executives off the hook; they should’ve been named,” Leibowitz told CNN in an interview. “And if there’s a violation here — and that’s a big if — then I think the FTC should very seriously consider not just fining the corporation but also putting the executives responsible under order.”
Twitter told CNN its FTC compliance record speaks for itself, citing third-party audits filed to the agency under the 2011 consent order in which it said Zatko did not participate. Twitter also said it is in compliance with relevant privacy rules and that it has been transparent with regulators about its efforts to fix any shortcomings in its systems.
Zatko’s allegations are based in part on a failure to grasp how Twitter’s existing programs and processes work to fulfill Twitter’s FTC obligations, the person familiar with his tenure told CNN, saying that misunderstanding has prompted him to make inaccurate claims about the company’s level of compliance.
Foreign threats
Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to foreign government exploitation in ways that undermine US national security, and the company may even have foreign spies currently on its payroll, the disclosure alleges.
The whistleblower report says the US government provided specific evidence to Twitter shortly before Zatko’s firing that at least one of its employees, perhaps more, were working for another government’s intelligence service. The report does not say whether Twitter was already aware or if it subsequently acted on the tip.
Last year, prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Agrawal — then Twitter’s chief technology officer — proposed to Zatko that Twitter comply with Russian demands that could result in broad-based censorship or surveillance of the platform, Zatko alleges.
The disclosure does not provide details of Agrawal’s suggestion. Last summer, however, Russia passed a law pressuring tech platforms to open local offices in the country or face potential advertising bans, a move western security experts said was intended to give Russia greater leverage over US tech companies.
While Agrawal’s suggestion was ultimately discarded, it was still an alarming sign of how far Twitter was willing to go in pursuit of growth, according to Zatko.
“The fact that Twitter’s current CEO even suggested Twitter become complicit with the Putin regime is cause for concern about Twitter’s effects on U.S. national security,” Zatko’s disclosure says.
Zatko’s report is becoming public just two weeks after a former Twitter manager was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi case underscores the gravity of the allegations Zatko now levels at Twitter. His report could further inflame bipartisan concerns in Washington about foreign adversaries and the cybersecurity threats they pose to Americans, ranging from the theft of US citizens’ data to manipulating US voters or stealing technology and trade secrets.
Twitter did not respond to specific questions about its alleged foreign intelligence vulnerabilities.
The Musk element
Zatko’s disclosure comes at a particularly fortuitous moment for Musk, who is engaged in a legal battle with Twitter over his attempt to back out of buying the company. Musk has accused Twitter of lying about the number of spam bots on its platform, an issue that he claims should let him terminate the deal.
While the binding acquisition agreement that Musk signed with Twitter in April did not include any bot-related exemptions, the billionaire claims that the number of bots on the platform affect the user experience and that having more bots than previously known could therefore impact the company’s long-term value. After Musk moved to terminate the purchase, Twitter responded with a lawsuit alleging that he is using bots as a pretext to get out of a deal over which he now has buyers’ remorse following the recent market downturn, and asking a court to force him to close the deal. The case is set to go to trial in Delaware Chancery Court in October.
User numbers are vital information for any social media business, as advertising revenue depends on how many people could potentially see an ad. But figures about how many users a service has, or how many people actually view a given ad on a site, are notoriously unreliable throughout the tech and media industries due to manipulation and error.
Alone among social media companies, Twitter reports its user numbers to investors and advertisers using a measurement it calls monetizable daily active users, or mDAUs. Its rivals simply count and report all active users; until 2019, Twitter had worked that way as well. But that meant Twitter’s figures were subject to significant swings in certain situations, including takedowns of major bot networks. So Twitter switched to mDAUs, which it says counts all users that could be shown an advertisement on Twitter — leaving all accounts that for some reason can’t, for instance because they’re known to be bots, in a separate bucket, according to Zatko’s disclosure.
The company has repeatedly reported that less than 5% of its mDAUs are fake or spam accounts, and a person familiar with the matter both affirmed that assessment to CNN this week and pointed to other investor disclosures saying the figure relies on significant judgement that may not accurately reflect reality. But Zatko’s disclosure argues that by reporting bots only as a percentage of mDAU, rather than as a percentage of the total number of accounts on the platform, Twitter obscures the true scale of fake and spam accounts on the service, a move Zatko alleges is deliberately misleading.
Zatko says he began asking about the prevalence of bot accounts on Twitter in early 2021, and was told by Twitter’s head of site integrity that the company didn’t know how many total bots are on its platform. He alleges that he came away from conversations with the integrity team with the understanding that the company “had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bots,” in part because if the true number became public, it could harm the company’s value and image.
Experts on inauthentic behavior online say it can be difficult to quantify “bots” because there isn’t a widely agreed upon definition of the term, and because bad actors constantly change their tactics. There are also many harmless bots on Twitter (and across the internet), such as automated news accounts, and Twitter offers an opt-in feature to allow such accounts to transparently label themselves as automated. Twitter told CNN that the claim it doesn’t know how many bots are on its platform lacks context, reiterating that not all bots are bad and adding that to focus on the total number of bots on Twitter would include those the company may have already identified and taken action against. The company also does not believe it can catch every spam account on the platform, Twitter said, which is why it reports its less-than-5% figure, which reflects a manual estimate, in its financial filings.
But Zatko told CNN he thinks there would still be value in attempting to measure the total number of spam, false or otherwise potentially harmful automated accounts on the platform. “The executive team, the board, the shareholders and the users all deserve an honest answer as to what it is that they are consuming as far as data and information and content [on the platform … At least from my point of view, I want to invest in a company where I know what’s actually going on because I want to invest strategically in the long-term value of an organization,” he said.
Twitter says that it allows bots on its platform, but its rules prohibit those that engage in spam or platform manipulation. But, as with all social media platforms’ rules, the challenge often lies in enforcing its policies.
The company says it regularly challenges, suspends and removes accounts engaged in spam and platform manipulation, including typically removing more than one million spam accounts each day. Twitter said the total number of bots on the platform is not a useful number. The company declined to answer questions about the total number of accounts on the platform or the average number of new accounts added on the platform daily as context around its daily bot deletion figure.
But in casting doubt on Twitter’s ability to estimate the true number of fake and spam accounts, Zatko’s allegations could provide ammunition to Musk’s central claim that the figure is much higher than Twitter has publicly reported.
By going public, Zatko says, he believes he is doing the job he was hired to do for a platform he says is critical to democracy. “Jack Dorsey reached out and asked me to come and perform a critical task at Twitter. I signed on to do it and believe I’m still performing that mission,” he said.
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Q: Joel Handen said it seems like half to one-third of drivers in the carpool lanes are driving solo. “I never see any enforcement. Is that a new policy, just ignore it?” he asked. Handen also said he rarely sees police and California Highway Patrol officers out and about.
A: We can assure our reader that the CHP enforces carpool violations. That being said, of course there are solo drivers in carpool lanes who sometimes get away with this because CHP officers can’t be everywhere, all the time.
We’ve had other readers in the past with the same complaint — carpool lanes aren’t being policed. In fact, they are, and it’s often during a traffic enforcement operation on a freeway targeting carpool violators. For example, we wrote in March about such an event on Feb. 24 when CHP motorcycle officers from Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino and the Riverside area organized a special enforcement detail targeting offenders in and around Rancho Cucamonga on the 210 Freeway. A dozen CHP officers and one sergeant issued 177 tickets; 62 of them to solo drivers in the carpool lane. Riverside area CHP officers who patrol Riverside, Perris, Nuevo and Moreno Valley issued 2,698 carpool violations in 2019 and 2,595 carpool violations in 2020, according to CHP Officer Juan Quintero. That’s just from the Riverside area office.
We’ve explained this before but it merits repeating: The CHP Inland Division covers a huge area with some of the nation’s most congested freeways: 10, 15, 215, and the 91 and 60. The division covers Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Consider this, as well: you are not likely to see a carpool violator being pulled over. CHP officers rarely initiate traffic stops on the freeway for safety reasons. The officer directs the offending vehicle off to a shoulder, or off the freeway entirely to pull the vehicle over. Most regular citizens never see a fraction of what law enforcement officials actually do on the job.
Q: Al Solorzano asked about the expansion of Clinton Keith Road between Whitewood and Briggs Road in Murrieta, where there’s a gravel road that a sign identifies as Menifee Road. He said, “If one is traveling westbound there’s a dedicated left lane and a traffic signal, yet only gravel without paved lanes that lead from Los Alamos Road. Will this road be paved in the future?”
A: Bob Moehling, the city of Murrieta’s Public Works director, said the answer to this question is yes, that particular road will be paved at some point in the future.
Finally, each year there are recalls for various vehicle models or equipment that may be related to safety issues. To check for possible recalls on your vehicle or to sign up for alerts about recalls, visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website. Run a check for your vehicle by entering the vehicle’s year, make and model. Visit https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls#vehicle. The NHTSA also lists any recalls for child safety seats, tires and vehicle equipment.
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Finish Line: Gen X's message to the youth
Part 2 of a 3-part "Generations" series... There's a generational divide in workplaces across America, and we're exploring different perspectives to better understand one another.
The big picture: Think of this as a mind meld with the generation that came of age before social media — Gen X. It’s one perspective on life and work, to help other generations understand us.
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At Axios, we’ve been intentional since Day 1 about including other perspectives in our decision-making, including an Emerging Leaders program that puts sharp, skeptical young minds around our executive table. In that spirit, my 5 points breaking down Gen X:
1. Remember that a job is, among other things ... a job. I write and talk a lot about the importance of purpose and mission in a modern, successful company. But in addition to being a great colleague, I'm paid to do a particular job well. That's my Job 1.
2. Promotions aren't perennials. My generation was lucky to get big pay raises or true promotions a few times in our young careers. That's changed, and we've changed. But if you want a better title, think about what new responsibility — and accountability — you'll take on.
3. Ask yourself: Do I really need to tweet or TikTok every thought? Will this make the world a better or smarter place? My generation aged and grew with the internet. But our instincts aren't to go public with every agitation or desire. The more you say, the harder it is for others to hear you when it truly matters.
4. My personal views aren’t universally held. It's a big, wide world full of conflicting, complicated viewpoints. My views and your views are real and awesome — just not always shared by everyone. Sometimes people are silent because it’s too exhausting to argue about hot topics. Or they’re busy working.
5. One disagreement does not a bad employer make. We judge an employer on the totality of the culture, mission, pay, benefits, decision-making, opportunities — not on one thing you wish they did, said or had. Hell, until the last decade, we didn’t even know what culture and mission meant 😀.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mike Trout said he was just as shocked as everyone else when the news broke that owner Arte Moreno was exploring a sale of the Angels.
“I’m still trying to process it,” Trout said before the Angels played the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night. “I found out when you guys found out. Looking back, I’ve been here my whole career. Had some great times with Arte. He took care of me, my family. I appreciate all he has done for me. I guess he’s moving on.”
The Angels’ three-time American League MVP is currently in the midst of a 12-year, $426 million contract that he signed in March 2019. At the time, Trout said the deal was an indication of his confidence that the Angels would build a winner around him.
So far that hasn’t happened. The Angels haven’t been to the playoffs since 2014 and they haven’t had a winning season since 2015.
When Trout was asked what he’d like to see from the next owner, he said it was too soon to get into specifics.
“I think once you find out who buys it, whenever that is, there are definitely conversations we’re going to have to have,” said Trout, who added “Obviously, I want to win.”
Trout said he appreciated the faith that Moreno showed in him with what is still the largest guaranteed contract in the history of North American team sports.
“I really appreciate what they’ve done,” Trout said. “They took care of me and my family. They trusted me and took risks, for sure. Anytime you sign somebody to a big contract, they believe in you. Obviously, I can’t thank them enough.”
The sale could also have an impact on Shohei Ohtani, who declined through an Angels spokesperson to address the news on Tuesday.
Ohtani is under contract with the Angels for one more season and then he’ll be eligible for free agency. It is likely now that any talk of an extension for Ohtani will have to wait until there is more clarity with the ownership situation, which could be settled in months or could drag on for more than a year.
Angels general manager Perry Minasian, who is with the team in St. Petersburg, also declined to comment on the Moreno news.
Manager Phil Nevin said that he was mostly focused on the Angels’ daily business on the field, but he thanked Moreno for the opportunity to manage the Angels. Nevin was promoted to interim manager after Joe Maddon was fired in June.
“For the owner to trust you with your players and his team means a lot to me,” Nevin said. “He’s been great to me. I’ve known him for longer than I’ve been with the Angels. He’s been a great owner for this organization, still is. Six division titles in the 20 years. People want to focus on the last part of the deal but he’s been really good to the community to Anaheim, Los Angeles, Orange County. He really has done a lot of great things for this organization to get us to where we are.”
HANDLING THE TURF
The Angels are in the middle of a seven-game stretch of games on artificial turf, with four games against the Rays followed by a three-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays. Nevin said he’s planning to give all of his everyday players at least one day off during the stretch to protect them from the wear and tear of the surface.
“The outfielders are spending all that time on the carpet so it can cause some low back and some knee problems,” Nevin said.
It’s much better than the turf that Nevin played on back in the 1990’s, though.
“They used to just roll out half-inch carpet on top of concrete,” Nevin said. “This is really high-tech stuff. It’s as close to grass as you’re going to get.”
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By ERIC TUCKER | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The National Archives and Records Administration recovered more than 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from an initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, according to newly public government correspondence with the Trump legal team.
The numbers make clear the large volume of secret government documents recovered months ago from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, well before FBI officials returned there with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and removed an additional 11 sets of classified records. The warrant reveals an FBI investigation into the potential unlawful possession of the records as well as obstruction of justice.
The figures on documents were included in a May 10 letter in which acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall told a lawyer for Trump, Evan Corcoran, that the Biden administration would not be honoring the former president’s protective claims of executive privilege over the documents.
Corcoran had weeks earlier requested additional time to review the materials in the boxes before the National Archives produced them to the FBI so that he could determine whether any specific document was subject to executive privilege and therefore exempt from disclosure, according to the letter.
The letter was made public Tuesday on the website of the National Archives. It was released Monday night on a website launched by John Solomon, who was appointed by Trump in June to be one of his designated representatives to the National Archives and who is a Trump ally and conservative journalist.
The archivist’s letter says the Justice Department had found “no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former President against an incumbent President to prevent the latter” from obtaining from the National Archives presidential records that belong to the federal government and that are needed for current government business.
As a result, the letter said, claims of executive privilege would not be honored and the FBI would be given access to the documents in a matter of days.
The National Archives had asked the Justice Department to investigate after saying that it had located classified material among the 15 boxes of records it retrieved from Mar-a-Lago that it said should have been turned over by Trump at the end of his White House tenure.
In the letter, archivist Wall writes that in those boxes, the National Archives had identified items marked as classified at the top secret level as well as information about special access programs.
It says the records included over 100 documents with classified markings, “comprising more than 700 pages” and cites an excerpt from separate correspondence from the Justice Department’s National Security Division saying that “access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation” but also for an “assessment of the potential damage” resulting from the manner in which the documents were transported and stored.
Corcoran did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the letter.
Associated Press writer Farnoush Amiri in Washington contributed to this report.
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CHICAGO — Most U.S. adults want to see gun laws made stricter and think gun violence is increasing nationwide, according to a new poll that finds broad public support for a variety of gun restrictions, including many that are supported by majorities of Republicans and gun owners.
The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 71% of Americans say gun laws should be stricter, including about half of Republicans, the vast majority of Democrats and a majority of those in gun-owning households.
The poll was conducted between July 28 and Aug. 1, after a string of deadly mass shootings — from a New York grocery store to a school in Texas and a July 4 parade in Illinois — and a 2020 spike in gun killings that have increased attention on the issue of gun violence. Overall, 8 in 10 Americans perceive that gun violence is increasing around the country, and about two-thirds say it’s increasing in their state, though less than half believe it’s increasing in their community, the poll shows.
The question of how to prevent such violence has long divided politicians and many voters, making it difficult to change gun laws. In June, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court expanded gun rights, finding a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
Later that same month, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill. The package, approved in the wake of shootings like the one that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, was both a measured compromise and the most significant bill addressing gun violence to be approved in Congress in decades — an indication of how intractable the issue has become.
The poll finds that majorities of U.S. adults view both reducing gun violence and protecting gun ownership as important issues.
Nicole Whitelaw, 29, is a Democrat and gun owner who grew up hunting and target shooting in upstate New York with her strongly Republican family. Whitelaw, who now lives along Florida’s Gulf Coast, supports some gun restrictions, such as prohibiting people convicted of domestic violence from owning firearms and a federal law preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns.
She said other restrictions — such as banning sales of AR-15 rifles — are “going too far” and may not solve the problem. Whitelaw pointed to the the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people bought up all the toilet paper they could find.
“I think people would start trying to hoard guns,” she said, adding that a better approach is to make smaller changes and see what impact they have.
The poll shows bipartisan majorities of Americans support a nationwide background check policy for all gun sales, a law preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns, allowing courts to temporarily prevent people who are considered a danger to themselves or others from purchasing a gun, making 21 the minimum age to buy a gun nationwide and banning those who have been convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a gun.
A smaller majority of Americans — 59% — favor a ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, with Democrats more likely to support that policy than Republicans, 83% vs. 35%.
Chris Boylan, 47, from Indianapolis, opposes restrictions on guns. As a teacher for many years, Boylan said he has “buried more kids than I care to count” and believes gun violence is a major problem. But the Republican, who said he leans more toward Libertarian in his personal stances, believes the issue is more about mental health and a too-lenient criminal justice system.
“Blaming the gun is an oversimplification of what the issues really are,” Boylan said. “It’s not the gun. It’s a hearts-and-minds issue to me.”
The new poll finds 88% of Americans call preventing mass shootings extremely or very important, and nearly as many say that about reducing gun violence in general. But 60% also say it’s very important to ensure that people can own guns for personal protection.
Overall, 52% of Americans — including 65% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats — say both reducing mass shootings and protecting the right to own guns for personal protection highly important.
University of Chicago professor Jens Ludwig said the poll’s findings show that concerns raised by opponents of gun restrictions are “very off base.” Led by the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby argues that any new limitations on who may have a gun or what type of firearms may be sold will lead to nationwide bans on all weapons and ammunition.
The poll showed most Americans’ opinions are more nuanced and there is support for some changes even among Republicans, who as elected officials typically oppose gun control, said Ludwig, who also is director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab.
“It should shut the door to some of the ‘slippery slope’ arguments,” he said.
The poll also found that only about 3 in 10 Americans support a law allowing people to carry guns in public without a permit. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats are opposed. Among Republicans, 47% are in favor and 39% are opposed.
Ervin Leach, 66, lives in Troutman, North Carolina, north of Charlotte, believes gun violence is a major problem and says that laws should be much more strict. A Democrat, Leach said he supports measures like background checks — or what he said should be “in-depth studies” — and a minimum age of 21 to buy a gun.
The poll found 1 in 5 people have experienced gun violence themselves in the last five years, such as being threatened with a gun or a shooting victim, or had a close friend or family member who has. Black and Hispanic Americans are especially likely to say that they or someone close to them has experienced gun violence.
Leach, who is Black, said the gun violence he sees in the news has made him more cautious.
“I don’t like people approaching me,” he said. “It used to be if someone was on the side of the road, you’d stop to help. Now, you go to help somebody, you might lose your life.”
All the killings have caused Leach to contemplate buying a gun for his own protection. While he hasn’t had a chance yet to get his gun permit, he said, “That is my intention.”
The poll of 1,373 adults was conducted July 28-Aug. 1 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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The sale of a Major League Baseball franchise is an inherently seminal event. They don’t happen often. The next owner of the Angels will be just the fourth since the franchise moved to Anaheim in 1966.
The glacial pace of ownership change is usually a good thing for all parties involved. Fans can focus on the product on the field. Players, coaches and other team employees can enjoy a sense of stability when they arrive at work. The owners themselves can realize the full potential of a long-term investment.
In the Angels’ case, however, stability hasn’t always been for the better.
The 2022 season will mark the team’s 13th consecutive year without a postseason win. The new owner will inherit a team lacking direction on the field and some massive bills to pay. Mike Trout is signed through the 2030 season and owed $283.6 million after this year. Anthony Rendon is guaranteed $152 million from 2023-26. Two other players are signed past 2023, and neither is named Shohei Ohtani.
For all that might discourage a potential owner from buying the Angels, the allure of owning a major sports franchise in the nation’s second-largest media market is sure to attract 10-figure bids. A $3 billion contract with regional television rights holder Bally Sports West doesn’t expire until 2031. A sweetheart stadium lease with the city of Anaheim runs through 2029, with options through 2038. The lights are in no danger of shutting off.
For these reasons – among others – past is not prologue when it comes to ownership transfers. The details matter. Your mileage will vary when comparing MLB team sales. Here is a brief look at the recent precedent facing the Angels:
1. New York Mets
Major League Baseball and the City of New York agreed to transfer control of the Mets from the Wilpon family to billionaire hedge fund owner Steve Cohen in Sept. 2020, reportedly at a cost of $2.4 billion. Cohen had been a minority owner of the team since 2012 – when his bid to buy the Dodgers failed – and a fan even longer. Upon assuming control of the team, Cohen rapidly expanded player payroll beyond the luxury tax threshold, and revitalized other moribund departments, such as research and development.
2. Kansas City Royals
In Nov. 2019, MLB approved the sale of the Royals from David Glass to John Sherman, a minority owner of the Cleveland Guardians. Sherman, who made his fortune in propane sales, reportedly paid $1 billion for a team that had won a World Series only four years earlier. The Kansas City native has yet to lift the Royals out of the small-market doldrums. They’re headed for their fourth consecutive fourth-place finish in the weak AL Central.
3. Miami Marlins
In Aug. 2017, Jeffrey Loria sold his flagging franchise to a group led by Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter for a reported $1.2 billion. Jeter recently stepped down as the team’s CEO amid another losing season, which would be the Marlins’ 12th in the past 13 years.
4. Philadelphia Phillies
In late 2015, minority owner John Middleton assumed control over the franchise that had belonged to David Montgomery since 1997. Although Montgomery retained a minority stake in the team at the time, change was swift. A new president (Andy MacPhail) and general manager (Matt Klentak) were introduced prior to the 2016 season, and the pair embarked on an ultimately fruitless rebuild from the team’s late-2000s run of five consecutive NL East titles. The Phillies own the National League’s longest playoff drought.
5. San Diego Padres
In Aug. 2012, John Moores sold the Padres to a group led by the family of former Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley. The final sale price was reported at approximately $800 million. It would be another eight years before San Diego saw a winning season, coinciding with the transfer of day-to-day control from one co-owner (Ron Fowler) to another (Peter Seidler). Seidler has guided the team into the upper echelon of MLB payrolls – rare territory for a small-market franchise.
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This Ain’t No Picnic, with headliners LCD Soundsystem and the Strokes, recently revealed set times for the indie and alternative music festival that takes over Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27-28.
If the name of the Goldenvoice-produced festival sounds familiar, it’s because you remember a long-gone iteration of This Ain’t No Picnic that used to be held at Oak Canyon Ranch in Orange County in the late ’90s and early ’00s.
And indie and alternative is a pretty good description of what Goldenvoice has on tap this weekend, too, with artists that range from Phoebe Bridgers and Jorja Smith to Le Tigre and Idles.
This Ain’t No Picnic also includes acts such as Beach House, Mac DeMarco, Earl Sweatshirt and Courtney Barnett. Tickets are still available for $159 single-day general admission; $299 or $324 for two-day general admission; $499 for a single-day VIP pass; and $799 for a two-day VIP pass. For all the details go to thisaintnopicnic.com/tickets.
Despacio, a 50,000-watt sound system built by LCD Soundsystem’s main man James Murphy will be playing music from 2-7 p.m. both days.
Here are the set times for the four other stages this weekend.
Saturday, Aug. 27
Fairway Stage
12:35-1:10 p.m. Tre’ Amani
1:20-1:55 p.m. Dawn Richmond
2-2:40 p.m. Indigo De Souza
2:45-3:25 p.m. Genesis Owusu
3:30-4:15 p.m. Julia Jacklin
4:20-5:05 p.m. Yves Tumor
5:10-6 p.m. Courtney Barnett
6:10-7 p.m. Isaiah Rashad
7:05-8 p.m. Kaytranada
8:20-9:20 p.m. Le Tigre
9:40 p.m. LCD Soundsystem
Back Nine Stage
12:10-12:45 p.m. Isabella Love Story
1:05-1:45 p.m. Lala Lala
2:10-2:50 p.m. Enjoy
3:15-3:55 p.m. Queen Naija
4:15-4:55 p.m. Ying Yang Twins
5:25-6:10 p.m. Earl Sweatshirt
6:35-7:30 p.m. Mac DeMarco
8-8:55 p.m. Jungle
9:20-10:15 p.m. Jorja Smith
Greens Stage
12:35-1:10 p.m. Hana Vu
1:35-2:15 p.m. Arooj Aftab
2:40-3:20 p.m. Godford
3:40-4:25 p.m. Eyedress
4:55-5:40 p.m. Ethel Cain
6:05-6:50 p.m. Magdalena Bay
7:25-8:10 p.m. Circle Jerks
8:50-9:35 p.m. Kelly Lee Owens
The 19th Hole Stage
12-1 p.m. Dave P
1-2 p.m. Maral
2-3:15 p.m. Peach
3:15-4:30 p.m. Leon Vynehall
4;30-5:45 p.m. Palms Trax
5:45-7 p.m. Danilo Plessow (MCDE)
7-8:15 p.m. Gerd Janson
8:15-9:45 Honey Dijon
Sunday
Fairway Stage
12;30-1 p.m. Brandon
1:05-1:40 p.m. Margaritas Podridas
1:45-2:25 p.m. Spelling
2:30-3:10 p.m. Girl Ultra
3:20-4 p.m. Nicki Nicole
4:10-4:55 Mdou Moctar
5-5:45 p.m. Wet Leg
5:50-6:35 p.m. Slow Thai
6;45-7:35 p.m. Idles
8:05-9:05 p.m. Phoebe Bridgers
9:40 p.m. The Strokes
Back Nine Stage
12;10-12:40 p.m. They Hate Change
1-1:35 p.m. Junior Varsity
1:55-2:35 p.m. Mike Watt + The Missingmen
2:55-3:35 p.m. Pachyman
4-4:45 p.m. Paris Texas
5:10-5:55 p.m. Tinashe
6:20-7:10 p.m. Caroline Polachek
7:35-8:25 p.m. Turnstile
9-10 p.m. Beach House
Greens Stage
12:25-1 p.m. Zulu
1:20-2 p.m. Michelle
2:25-3:05 p.m. King Woman
3:30-4:15 p.m. Nothing
4:40-5:25 p.m. Shame
5;50-6:35 p.m. Deafheaven
7-7:45 p.m. Sparks
8:20-9:05 p.m. Descendants
9:45-10:35 p.m. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The 19th Hole Stage
12-1:15 p.m. Fundido
1:15-2:30 p.m. Naafi
2:30-3;45 p.m. Sofia Kourtesis
3:45-5 p.m. Romy
5-6:15 p.m. Tsha
6:15-7:45 p.m. Avalon Emerson
7:45-9:45 p.m. Four Tet + Floating Points
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Batter up! As you may have heard, longtime Angels owner Arte Moreno announced Tuesday that he is considering a sale of the team. He purchased the Angels for $184 million in 2004, and the franchise’s value is now estimated at more than $2 billion. So what happens now for the Angels?
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By Robert Snell and Kara Berg | The Detroit News
Grand Rapids — A federal jury Tuesday convicted two men accused of orchestrating a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as prosecutors salvaged the largest domestic terrorism case in a generation that has shed light on political extremism in Michigan.
The convictions came four months after jurors deadlocked on charges against Potterville resident Adam Fox and Delaware truck driver Barry Croft and acquitted two others who were accused of being part of a broader group of people angered by pandemic restrictions and hoping to spark a second Civil War. Fox and Croft face up to life in federal prison.
The verdicts give the U.S. Justice Department a landmark victory prosecuting extremism and domestic terrorism amid an increase in threats nationwide.
“Getting these convictions and, most important for the FBI, disrupting the plot has to go down as a win,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
Croft had a look of resignation as the guilty verdicts were read, while Fox didn’t have a reaction.
Two others, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping conspiracy charges and testified as the government’s star witnesses.
urors spent about eight hours deliberating during two days following a case clouded by controversy, including defense concerns about FBI agent misconduct and whether government agents entrapped the accused plotters. It also drew the attention of a nation facing the rise of violent extremism surrounding the 2020 presidential election and COVID-19 pandemic. Former President Donald Trump recently called the alleged plot “a fake deal.”
“The noise aside, the arguments about entrapment, there was still sufficient evidence that these individuals were willingly, openly and, to various degrees, happily going along with a plan to kidnap a sitting governor,” Lewis said.
Whitmer was disappointed with the results of the first trial but welcomed Tuesday’s convictions.
“I want to thank the prosecutors and law enforcement officers for their hard work and my family, friends, and staff for their support,” the Democratic governor said in a Tuesday statement. “Today’s verdicts prove that violence and threats have no place in our politics and those who seek to divide us will be held accountable. They will not succeed.
“But we must also take a hard look at the status of our politics. Plots against public officials and threats to the FBI are a disturbing extension of radicalized domestic terrorism that festers in our nation, threatening the very foundation of our republic.”
The result followed months of criticism from defense lawyers about FBI agent misconduct and claims that a team of investigators and informants orchestrated the conspiracy and entrapped Fox, Croft and others who were portrayed as a ragtag band of social outcasts who harbored antigovernment views and anger over COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Whitmer.
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday after seven days of testimony. An undercover FBI agent told jurors about a stop at a bridge near Whitmer’s northern Michigan cottage during a night ride by anti-government extremists to continue planning a kidnapping.
Fox and Croft were portrayed by prosecutors as ringleaders of the plot.
They were convicted of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Croft also was convicted of possessing an unregistered destructive device, a 10-year felony.
The defendants were arrested in early October 2020 and accused of hatching the plot due to distrust of the government and anger over restrictions imposed during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their arrests were part of a broader plot that involved more than a dozen men. Ten people are facing charges in state court.During the trial, jurors saw secret recordings made by FBI informants of bombs being built during training exercises, defendants firing weapons, and going on a surveillance run of the governor’s cottage in northern Michigan.
Defense lawyers said FBI agents and informants controlled the entire series of events and faulted prosecutors for manipulating evidence during the trial, including cherrypicking out-of-context snippets of surveillance audio and video.
The jury decision came almost two years after FBI agents said they thwarted the Whitmer plot and as law enforcement arrested more than a dozen men in multiple states who were accused of conspiring to kidnap the governor of Michigan.
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LOS ANGELES — Coach Chip Kelly and the UCLA football team begin the final week of training camp, but it’s not expected to be any different than previous weeks of camp.
While other football programs across the country have incorporated an intrasquad scrimmage over the past week, the Bruins will not follow suit and remain focused on their season opener against Bowling Green on Sept. 3 at the Rose Bowl.
Kelly explained that the Bruins won’t dedicate a two-hour practice day strictly to scrimmaging but will simulate two-minute drills and red-zone situations while referees are on sight at the practice facility.
“We just contact the league office and they provide them for us,” Kelly said. “We’ve had a few different crews here.”
The opportunity to have different officiating crews out at practices has worked as a mutually beneficial partnership as the referees get acclimated to any new rules implemented during the offseason and prepare for the upcoming season.
Kelly encourages the players to talk with the referees after the practices to develop a better comprehend what officiating crews will be looking for during games.
“I think it’s really helped our players have a better understanding of the rules,” Kelly said. “So the more exposure we get to it, the better it is because it’s critical in terms of the yardage you can acquire from the other team if they’re more penalized than you are.”
The Bruins were ranked seventh in penalties (86) and penalty yards (774) among Pac-12 teams in 2021.
Sophomore defensive back Devin Kirkwood, who is expected to take on a starting role this season, has found it to be a valuable experience to have the officials available as a resource.
“I’m making sure I don’t do anything to jeopardize our team … I always have a good relationship with the refs,” Kirkwood said. “… asking them what can I do at the line of scrimmage that won’t get called and how I should play my coverage because sometimes people get a little handsy and (the officials) can let me know what’s allowed and what’s not allowed.”
CIRCLING BACK
Sophomore receiver Titus Mokiao-Atimalala didn’t have to wait in the transfer portal long before the recruiting process started again for him in January.
Kelly reached out to express his continued interest in Mokiao-Atimalala, much like he did when the receiver was starring at James Campbell High School in Hawai’i.
The former four-star prospect mentioned he strongly considered joining Kelly and the Bruins in 2021 but “other factors” led to his decision to sign with Central Florida.
“Once I entered the transfer portal, (Kelly) was the first person to call me,” Mokiao-Atimalala said. “I still had his number saved from high school … his exact words were: ‘This is my second time around and I’m not going to lose you.’”
UCLA finished with the highest scoring offense (36.5 points) in the Pac-12 last season but lost its top three receiving targets. Receiver Chase Cota transferred to Oregon and tight end Greg Dulcich and receiver Kyle Philips decided to forgo their remaining eligibility to enter the NFL draft.
“I saw what they did last year and the numbers they put up with Kyle and Greg,” he said. “That’s something I wanted to be a part of.”
PRESEASON HONORS
Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson was named to the Manning Award watch list for the honor given to the best quarterback at the end of the season.
Thompson-Robinson returns as a fifth-year senior and the most experienced quarterback in the Pac-12 Conference. He is also the active leader in career passing (7,541) and rushing yards (1,181) among conference quarterbacks.
He is ranked within the program’s top five for career passing yards, career touchdown passes (61), and career completions (594).
The watch list included 30 quarterbacks from across the country and the balloting process will take the candidates’ bowl performances into account. The finalists will be selected prior to the postseason, but the winner will be announced following the national championship game in January.
Thompson-Robinson and the Bruins were scheduled to play in the Holiday Bowl, the program’s first bowl game since 2017, before it was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols within the UCLA program.
PLAYERS’ CLUB
Members of the UCLA football team have announced the start of the “Westwood NIL Club.”
The club is described as a “membership-based community that allows fans to financially support and interact” with the participating players, according to a press release.
The club allows fans to equally support more than 75 football players by making a monthly commitment.
Any donation is said to be enough to make you a member of the club and allows you full access.
Some of the listed benefits include meet-and-greets, Q&A sessions, and access to other player-created content.
The WNC website also lists two monthly commitment tiers with extra rewards. Those who make a monthly commitment of $25 or more will receive a free Troy Aikman jersey. A $100+ commitment will get you an invite to a steak dinner with the participating players during the fall.
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To take on the herculean task of challenging Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall, Florida Democrats are going with someone familiar over someone new.
For the second time in eight years, Democratic voters will elect Charlie Crist as their nominee for governor, CNN projects, choosing the seasoned veteran over Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who was vying to become the state's first female governor. Crist now has just 11 weeks to unite his party, energize the Democratic base and convince independent voters that the state needs a new direction.
The stakes for Democrats are high, and not just in Florida, where DeSantis has already pushed through an aggressively conservative agenda and has vowed a second term will bring more restrictions on abortion and fewer on guns. National Democrats are also looking for Crist to slow DeSantis, one of the Republican Party's most-recognizable figures, before an anticipated campaign for the White House in 2024.
"This guy wants to be President of the United States of America," Crist said in his victory speech. "However, when we defeat him on November 8, that show is over."
The task will not be easy. DeSantis has amassed $132 million for the fall general election, a record sum for a gubernatorial candidate who isn't self-funded, and he has animated the Republican base more than any GOP politician not named Donald Trump. His party has surpassed Democrats in registered voters in Florida for the first time. And he can point to a state economy that appears to be booming, with more people moving to the state than anywhere in the country, record tourism numbers, and an unemployment rate of 2.7% -- almost a full point below the federal level.
But Democrats have argued that the prosperity has not been shared by all. With some of the country's fastest rising home prices and rents, Florida has become a paradise that many can no longer afford. A property insurance crisis has threatened coverage for millions of homeowners just as hurricane season reaches its zenith. LGBTQ Floridians say the DeSantis administration has made the state more hostile to them, while some women say new restrictions on abortion eliminate choice over their bodies and may force them to see through medically risky pregnancies.
Crist's argument against another four years of DeSantis is also predicated on Floridians longing for a less divisive tone from its leader. Throughout the Democratic primary, Crist and Fried depicted DeSantis as a bully and a despot who is far more focused on positioning himself to run for the White House than he is on governing the country's third largest state. Time and again, they have noted, DeSantis has forced the state's other branches of government to bend to his will, eliminating any checks on his executive power.
Earlier Tuesday, DeSantis predicted he would face Crist in the general election. During a news conference in Tallahassee, he dismissed Crist as "a guy that's been running for office for five decades, who is voting with (Joe) Biden 100% of time," and he made clear he intends to frame the race around his controversial coronavirus pandemic response.
Crist, he said, "opposed every decision I've made to keep this state open, to keep people's rights, respected their rights, to save jobs, to keep kids in school, to save businesses."
Inside his St. Petersburg watch party, Crist did not have to wait long for good news. By the time his campaign welcomed supporters into the Hilton conference room just after polls closed at 7 p.m., early voting returns strongly suggested it would be a drama free night. The crowd broke into cheers as a large screen displayed an overwhelmingly promising start to the count for Crist.
See full results in Florida here.
A repeat of the Biden playbook?
In choosing Crist, Democrats are betting a well-known and inoffensive nominee gives them the best chance to unseat a divisive but dynamic incumbent Republican. It's a playbook nearly identical to the one deployed successfully by Biden to defeat Trump in 2020.
"I've known him. I've met him. I trust him," Darla Price, a retiree from St. Petersburg, told CNN after she voted for Crist.
However, the Biden blueprint notably did not work in Florida. Trump won the state by a larger margin in 2020 than he did in 2016. Crist himself hasn't won a statewide general election in Florida in 16 years, though he has repeatedly tried.
For Crist, 66, Tuesday's victory is another chapter in one of the most unusual careers in American politics.
After decades as a Republican -- serving as a state lawmaker, education commissioner, attorney general and reaching the governor's office in 2007 -- Crist fell out of favor with his party for committing the cardinal sin of hugging a Democratic president, Barack Obama. He was defeated in a 2010 Republican primary for Senate by Marco Rubio and then lost in the general election as an independent.
But four years later he reemerged as the Democratic nominee to go up against his successor, then-Gov. Rick Scott. Crist fell 64,000 votes short of winning back his old job. In 2016, he then turned his attention to the House of Representatives and was thrice elected as a Democrat to represent his home in Pinellas County.
Many expected Crist's career would end in Congress. Instead, last May, he jumped into the race for governor -- a decision that at the time was panned by many Democratic officials and operatives in Florida as a relic of the past for a party that needed to look ahead. Fried, a 44-year-old who had only one previous campaign under her belt, leaned into the comparison with Crist and campaigned on the phrase, "Something new."
But as Fried struggled to make a case for her candidacy, Crist's campaign gained traction. He built a coalition of supporters throughout the state and across the party's factions: labor unions, environmental groups, Black faith leaders, prominent women leaders and elected officials of all stripes. Popular Democratic lawmakers like state Rep. Anna Eskamani and state Sen. Shevrin Jones, who were initially dismissive of Crist, endorsed him over Fried.
The US Supreme Court decision striking down the constitutional right to an abortion offered a reset of sorts for Fried. She sought to reframe the race around protecting abortion access and suggested Crist, who once called himself "pro-life," couldn't carry that fight to DeSantis.
Most primary voters were ultimately unconvinced.
Shortly after the polls closed in the Florida Panhandle at 8 p.m., Fried told her supporters in Fort Lauderdale that she had called Crist to congratulate him on winning the nomination. She strongly hinted this isn't the end of her time in the Florida political arena.
"Nobody ever broke a glass ceiling on the first pitch," Fried said.
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The final pieces of the midterm puzzle are coming into focus as Tuesday primaries in New York, Florida and Oklahoma lock in key parts of the November election slate.
Democrats in Florida on Tuesday picked Rep. Charlie Crist to take on Gov. Ron DeSantis in the fall, CNN projected. Crist's challenge comes as DeSantis seeks both a second term and a boost ahead of a rumored presidential bid in 2024. CNN also projected that Democratic Rep. Val Demings would take on Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in November.
Meanwhile, in New York, where a protracted redistricting process pushed back the US House and state Senate elections, a series of heated contests could send a handful of new faces to Capitol Hill next year -- and at least one of the Democratic delegation's longest-serving members' run will come to a dramatic end.
A special election upstate will also offer new clues about the influence of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in a race that Democrat Pat Ryan has cast as a referendum on the ruling.
And in Oklahoma, Republicans will decide on a nominee to fill out the remainder of retiring Sen. Jim Inhofe's term ahead of special general election.
Here are the key takeaways from August's final primary day.
Crist looks to derail DeSantis in the fall
For the second time in eight years, Democratic voters elected Charlie Crist as their nominee for governor, choosing the seasoned veteran over Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who was vying to become the state's first female governor. Crist now has just 11 weeks to unite his party, energize the Democratic base and convince independent voters that the state needs a new direction.
See full results in Florida here.
The stakes for Democrats are high, and not just in Florida, where DeSantis has already pushed through an aggressively conservative agenda, vowing that a second term will bring new action to further restrict abortion and to make it easier to carry a gun in public. But national Democrats are also now looking for Crist to slow DeSantis' rise before an anticipated campaign for the White House in 2024.
The task will not be easy. DeSantis has amassed $132 million for the general election, a record sum for a gubernatorial candidate who isn't self-funded, and he has animated the Republican base more than any other GOP politician not named Donald Trump. His party has surpassed Democrats in registered voters in Florida for the first time. And he can point to a state economy that appears to be booming, with more people moving there than anywhere in the country, record tourism numbers, and an unemployment rate of 2.7%, almost a full point below the national level.
But Democrats have argued that the prosperity has not been shared by all. With some of the country's fastest rising home prices and rents, Florida has become a paradise that many can no longer afford. A property insurance crisis has threatened coverage for millions of homeowners just as hurricane season reaches its zenith. LGBTQ Floridians say the DeSantis administration has made the state more hostile to them and women say new restrictions on abortion eliminate autonomy over their bodies and force them to see through medically risky pregnancies.
Crist's argument against another four years of DeSantis is also predicated on Floridians longing for a less divisive tone from its leader. Throughout the primary, Crist and Fried depicted DeSantis as a bully and a despot who is far more focused on positioning himself to run for the White House than he is on governing the country's third largest state. Time and again, they have noted, DeSantis has forced the state's other branches to bend to his will, eliminating any checks on his executive power.
Florida's latest contentious Senate race formally takes shape
The Senate race between Republican incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio and Democrat Rep. Val Demings is on.
Demings won her primary on Tuesday and Rubio was unopposed, setting up a race that Republicans believe they should easily win but one that offers Democrats yet another chance to show they can win statewide in a place that has crept right for years.
The two have been focused on each other for months -- their primaries were not competitive -- but on Tuesday night, the contours of the race were clear: Rubio plans to brand Demings a "Pelosi Puppet" who is inextricably linked to President Joe Biden, while Demings plans to attack Rubio as ineffective, selfish and wedded to a Republican Party dominated by Trump.
The onus is on Demings to prove she -- or any Democrat -- can win statewide in a state that has overwhelmingly backed Republicans for years. But Democrats got a morale boost recently: The National Republican Senatorial Committee came in with an ad campaign for Rubio while Demings was widely outspending the Republican.
Like many Democrats, Demings is also hoping the anger in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will propel her to an unlikely victory.
"I dream of an America where we protect constitutional rights like a woman's right to choose. I've said it along this campaign trail, let me say it again. We're not going back. We're not," Demings said on Tuesday night.
Demings has the fundraising advantage -- she has consistently outraised Rubio and pulled in $12.2 million in the second quarter of 2022 -- but central to her campaign will be her ability to push back against attacks linking her to the "defund the police" movement. Demings, the former Orlando police chief, has already put out her own ad refuting the criticism and has long had her campaigns identify her as "Chief Demings," not Rep. Demings, in a not-so-subtle response to the attacks.
Nadler emerges in clash of Upper Manhattan Democratic titans
Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney are about the same age, share nearly identical ideological views and both chair powerful committees in the House, where they both arrived in 1993.
But it will be Nadler, bolstered by endorsements from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and The New York Times editorial board, that will return to Capitol Hill next year after he defeated Maloney in one of the most contentious primaries in recent New York history.
It was a race neither wanted and, according to Maloney, Nadler urged her to run in another district after their parallel strongholds on Manhattan's Upper East and West Sides were drawn together at the conclusion of a long redistricting process.
Maloney tried to tap into Democratic primary voters' anger over the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and vowed, if reelected, to make the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment her main focus. She also accused Nadler of taking undue credit for his part in major local projects, like the construction of the Second Avenue subway, and -- at the bitter end -- suggesting on camera that he might be "senile."
But Nadler, despite a disappointing debate performance, shored up the district's progressive base. A key piece of validation came from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who cut an ad for Nadler highlighting his support from Planned Parenthood and NARAL, declaring New Yorkers "lucky to have Jerry in Congress."
Though the full tally is yet to be finalized, it appears Nadler's margin of victory could exceed Maloney's lead -- if it holds -- over a third candidate, Suraj Patel, who argued on the trail that the new district needed a new voice. But the 38-year-old, who unsuccessfully challenged Maloney in the last two cycles in a different district, again fell short.
Markwayne Mullin to become the favorite in race to fill Inhofe's Senate seat
Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin will be the GOP nominee for the special election to fill Sen. Jim Inhofe's Oklahoma Senate seat, CNN projected. As the Republican nominee, Mullin is in a strong position to win the general election this fall in the conservative state. He will face off against former Democratic Rep. Kendra Horn.
Inhofe, a veteran of the Senate, announced in February that he would retire in January 2023, sparking the special election.
Mullin, who represents Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District, defeated former Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon in Tuesday's runoff. Mullin advanced to the runoff after leading the first round with 44% of the vote, and that was before an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
Mullin's campaign website highlights his support for the former President, saying, "In Congress, he fought the liberals trying to stop President Trump."
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On what would have been Kobe Bryant's 44th birthday, attorneys for his widow and a co-plaintiff urged a jury Tuesday to consider awarding millions of dollars for emotional distress and violation of constitutional rights caused by Los Angeles County deputies and firefighters taking and sharing of close-up images of their loved ones' remains.
The lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant and co-plaintiff Christopher Chester against Los Angeles County is centered on the photos taken after the helicopter crash that killed Bryant, his daughter Gianna, as well as Chester's wife Sarah, daughter Payton and five others on January 26, 2000.
Witnesses during the trial included a deputy who said he showed graphic images from the scene while at a bar, another deputy who said he shared photos while playing a video game, a deputy who sent dozens of photos to someone he didn't know, and a fire official who showed the images to other personnel during an awards ceremony cocktail hour.
"You can't award too much money for what they went through," said Jerry Jackson, who represents Chester, in his closing arguments. "What they went through is inhuman and inhumane."
Bryant and Chester should each be awarded $2.5 million for the pain they've already suffered, plus another amount between $100,000 and $1 million for each year of the remainder of their lives, Jackson said.
That would bring the total to between $6.5 million and $42.5 million for Bryant and between $5.5 million and $32.5 million for Chester, he said.
Vanessa Bryant left courtroom at one point
Craig Lavoie, an attorney representing Bryant, began his closing argument by acknowledging Kobe Bryant's 44th birthday: "It is an honor to stand here asking for justice and accountability" on the Bryants' behalf.
Vanessa Bryant cried and was comforted by her attorney Luis Li as Lavoie revisited how Fire Capt. Brian Jordan had allegedly photographed the remains of Gianna Bryant.
At the end of Lavoie's arguments, Bryant buried her eyes in a tissue before getting up and walking out. She returned for the conclusion of arguments from Chester's attorney.
Los Angeles County maintains its handling of the photos ultimately resulted in their successful deletion and argues it is being sued for photos that haven't ever been public. But Lavoie told jurors the county can't ensure that because one of its deputies airdropped the photos to a fire captain that is still unidentified and Jordan's laptop was missing a hard drive when it was turned into the county.
Lavoie said Bryant and Chester must live knowing "either the photos will surface and all their fears will be realized, or they will live in fear for the rest of their lives over when that day will come," he said.
Lavoie reminded the jury that in a federal civil suit, one does not need to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt; instead, the jury is asked to determine whether Los Angeles County, more likely than not, violated Bryant's and Chester's constitutional rights due to inadequate policies or training, and/or a custom or practice of taking illicit photos of the deceased.
On Tuesday, Bryant posted an Instagram message for Kobe, wishing him a happy birthday.
"Happy birthday, baby! I love you and miss you so much," she wrote.
Filed in September 2020, the lawsuit seeks undisclosed damages, claiming civil rights violations, negligence, emotional distress and violation of privacy.
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated Chester's role in the lawsuit; he is a co-plaintiff. It also gave an incorrect title for Dennis Breshears; he is a former assistant fire chief.
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Rep. Jerry Nadler will win the Democratic nomination in New York's 12th Congressional District, CNN projects, unseating Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a clash of longtime Upper Manhattan incumbents.
Nadler and Maloney were drawn into the same district by an independent mapmaker after state Democrats' proposed lines were thrown out in court. For decades, the pair enjoyed parallel dominion over the East and West sides, but the new map -- and their mutual refusal to consider another district -- prompted what became one of the nastiest primary races of the year.
Attorney Suraj Patel appears to be on track to finish third, his argument that the new district was hungering for new blood having lost out to the loyalties assiduously cultivated by Nadler and Maloney over their decades in office.
Nadler was already viewed as the favorite in the race as primary day neared, but he then got perhaps a clinching boost when he was endorsed by The New York Times' influential editorial board. From there Maloney, sensing the contest slipping away, ramped up her offensives on her soon-to-be-former colleague, at one point suggesting he might be "senile."
But Nadler, who was also backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, only seemed to grow stronger as the campaign entered its final days.
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Man arrested for drug, gun charges out of Hillcrest Park
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for drug and gun charges while patrolling near Hillcrest Park on August 17th around 3 a.m.
According to the BCSO, Deputies found a vehicle inside the park during prohibited hours, and found a man and young woman inside of the car along with about a pound and a half of marijuana, a digital scale, packaging materials, and a gun with a drum magazine.
The man, identified as 22-year-old Oscar Freeman, was taken into custody and charged with Possession of Marijuana with intent to distribute, as well as possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. | https://www.41nbc.com/741129-2/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:33Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/741129-2/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man arrested for drug, gun charges out of Hillcrest Park
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man for drug and gun charges while patrolling near Hillcrest Park on August 17th around 3 a.m.
According to the BCSO, Deputies found a vehicle inside the park during prohibited hours, and found a man and young woman inside of the car along with about a pound and a half of marijuana, a digital scale, packaging materials, and a gun with a drum magazine.
The man, identified as 22-year-old Oscar Freeman, was taken into custody and charged with Possession of Marijuana with intent to distribute, as well as possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. | https://www.41nbc.com/741129-2/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:33Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/741129-2/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlanta Braves World Championship Trophy Tour visits Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital
The Atlanta Braves made a stop at the Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital to surprise patients as part of the World Champion Trophy Tour.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Atlanta Braves made a stop at the Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital to surprise patients as part of the World Champion Trophy Tour.
Patients, many of them Braves fans, were able to get close to the trophy and have their picture taken.
Market President at Truist Scott Seigel says seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces was a grand slam.
“Our purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities,” Seigel said. “I don’t think there’s a better way we could’ve done that this morning than to have this trophy out and let the kids get out of the hospital, come out here and just spend a little time and get their pictures made.”
Hospital staff also had a chance to see the trophy as part of “Teammate Appreciation Week.”
The president of hospitals and clinics for Atrium Health Navicent, Luis Fonseca, says it showed appreciation to their hard working team.
“All of our teammates who have really worked tirelessly over the past several years through the pandemic providing great care demonstrate what a great team coming together can do just like the Atlanta Braves,” Fonesca said.
Beverly Knight Olson, the hospital’s namesake and longtime hospital volunteer, was also there to see the trophy.
She says she’s glad the children have chance to experience this.
“It gives children a chance to see a real World Series trophy, and it’s amazing,” she said.
The tour continues Thursday in Douglasville. | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-braves-world-championship-trophy-tour-visits-beverly-knight-olson-childrens-hospital/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:40Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-braves-world-championship-trophy-tour-visits-beverly-knight-olson-childrens-hospital/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Atlanta Braves World Championship Trophy Tour visits Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital
The Atlanta Braves made a stop at the Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital to surprise patients as part of the World Champion Trophy Tour.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Atlanta Braves made a stop at the Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital to surprise patients as part of the World Champion Trophy Tour.
Patients, many of them Braves fans, were able to get close to the trophy and have their picture taken.
Market President at Truist Scott Seigel says seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces was a grand slam.
“Our purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities,” Seigel said. “I don’t think there’s a better way we could’ve done that this morning than to have this trophy out and let the kids get out of the hospital, come out here and just spend a little time and get their pictures made.”
Hospital staff also had a chance to see the trophy as part of “Teammate Appreciation Week.”
The president of hospitals and clinics for Atrium Health Navicent, Luis Fonseca, says it showed appreciation to their hard working team.
“All of our teammates who have really worked tirelessly over the past several years through the pandemic providing great care demonstrate what a great team coming together can do just like the Atlanta Braves,” Fonesca said.
Beverly Knight Olson, the hospital’s namesake and longtime hospital volunteer, was also there to see the trophy.
She says she’s glad the children have chance to experience this.
“It gives children a chance to see a real World Series trophy, and it’s amazing,” she said.
The tour continues Thursday in Douglasville. | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-braves-world-championship-trophy-tour-visits-beverly-knight-olson-childrens-hospital/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:40Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/atlanta-braves-world-championship-trophy-tour-visits-beverly-knight-olson-childrens-hospital/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Bibb School District announces time changes for 2 football games Friday
The Bibb County School District announced time changes for two football games involving four district teams this Friday, August 26.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County School District announced time changes for two football games involving four district teams this Friday, August 26.
A district Facebook post Tuesday said the varsity game between Westside High School and Southwest High School will start at 5:30 p.m. at Henderson Stadium.
The varsity game between Howard High School and Central High School will start at 8 p.m. at Ed Defore Sports Complex.
A district spokesperson tells 41NBC the changes were made to “ensure adequate staffing for both games on Friday night.”
Fans are asked to purchase tickets for the games, and all county athletic events, on GoFan. | https://www.41nbc.com/bibb-school-district-announces-time-changes-football-games/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:46Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/bibb-school-district-announces-time-changes-football-games/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bibb School District announces time changes for 2 football games Friday
The Bibb County School District announced time changes for two football games involving four district teams this Friday, August 26.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County School District announced time changes for two football games involving four district teams this Friday, August 26.
A district Facebook post Tuesday said the varsity game between Westside High School and Southwest High School will start at 5:30 p.m. at Henderson Stadium.
The varsity game between Howard High School and Central High School will start at 8 p.m. at Ed Defore Sports Complex.
A district spokesperson tells 41NBC the changes were made to “ensure adequate staffing for both games on Friday night.”
Fans are asked to purchase tickets for the games, and all county athletic events, on GoFan. | https://www.41nbc.com/bibb-school-district-announces-time-changes-football-games/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:46Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/bibb-school-district-announces-time-changes-football-games/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
City of Perry explains impact of being ‘Broadband Ready’
The City of Perry is now one of 50 cities considered a 'Broadband Ready Community.'
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that high-speed internet is essential.
The City of Perry is now one of 50 cities considered a ‘Broadband Ready Community.’
Ashley Hardin, Perry’s Economic Development Administrator, explains what that means.
“We see broadband as infrastructure, and that it’s something important to have in our city for connectivity so that residents can work remotely or have internet access for school-age children,” Hardin said.
Michael Tomlin, Owner and Operator of Clover Wine Merchant, says internet connectivity is crucial to run his business, whether it be for the payment system or ordering food and wine. They even offer wine tastings with winemakers attending virtually.
“It’s fun,” he said. “The guests love it, because they’re talking with the winemaker. He’s talking about, ‘We’re drinking a 3 or 4 vertical as far as vintages,'” Tomlin said. “And he’s talking about why the 2012 was a little more fruity than the 2013.”
Hardin says high-speed fiber is already in Perry with current companies expanding their networks. She says retail shops, restaurants and hospitals can benefit from this designation.
“I can’t think of any business that wouldn’t need broadband honestly, because everything is so automated,” she said. “Whether you’re eating in the restaurant or picking up, you don’t have to pick up the phone to order food or retail. You can shop online.”
Tomlin says he tries not to take having high-speed internet for granted.
“The food and beverage, there’s more of this kind of stuff going on with sommeliers and friends of mine in the wine world now than ever before, so computers and technology are crucial,” he said.
Other ‘Broadband Ready Communities’ in Middle Georgia include Fort Valley, Milledgeville, Dublin, Baldwin County and Peach County. | https://www.41nbc.com/city-of-perry-explains-impact-of-being-broadband-ready/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:52Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/city-of-perry-explains-impact-of-being-broadband-ready/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
City of Perry explains impact of being ‘Broadband Ready’
The City of Perry is now one of 50 cities considered a 'Broadband Ready Community.'
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that high-speed internet is essential.
The City of Perry is now one of 50 cities considered a ‘Broadband Ready Community.’
Ashley Hardin, Perry’s Economic Development Administrator, explains what that means.
“We see broadband as infrastructure, and that it’s something important to have in our city for connectivity so that residents can work remotely or have internet access for school-age children,” Hardin said.
Michael Tomlin, Owner and Operator of Clover Wine Merchant, says internet connectivity is crucial to run his business, whether it be for the payment system or ordering food and wine. They even offer wine tastings with winemakers attending virtually.
“It’s fun,” he said. “The guests love it, because they’re talking with the winemaker. He’s talking about, ‘We’re drinking a 3 or 4 vertical as far as vintages,'” Tomlin said. “And he’s talking about why the 2012 was a little more fruity than the 2013.”
Hardin says high-speed fiber is already in Perry with current companies expanding their networks. She says retail shops, restaurants and hospitals can benefit from this designation.
“I can’t think of any business that wouldn’t need broadband honestly, because everything is so automated,” she said. “Whether you’re eating in the restaurant or picking up, you don’t have to pick up the phone to order food or retail. You can shop online.”
Tomlin says he tries not to take having high-speed internet for granted.
“The food and beverage, there’s more of this kind of stuff going on with sommeliers and friends of mine in the wine world now than ever before, so computers and technology are crucial,” he said.
Other ‘Broadband Ready Communities’ in Middle Georgia include Fort Valley, Milledgeville, Dublin, Baldwin County and Peach County. | https://www.41nbc.com/city-of-perry-explains-impact-of-being-broadband-ready/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:52Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/city-of-perry-explains-impact-of-being-broadband-ready/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Cloudy, rainy pattern sticks around this week
A rainy, humid weather pattern will stick around for the rest of the week along with cooler than normal high temperatures.
Clouds and rain have kept Middle Georgia cooler than normal today, with most of us seeing highs in the mid 80s.
Light rain started the day for some spots with a few storms this afternoon.
We won’t be seeing much of a change in our overall weather pattern through the next few days, so expect more rain and clouds Wednesday.
Thursday should be another repeat of this weather as well.
There are still some questions about the end of the week regarding rain chances, but at this point it looks like it will be staying rainy.
Once again, this keeps temps cooler than normal and will keep clouds around for much of the day.
Although there are some model solutions (mainly the American model) that suggest we could see some dry weather for the weekend, I’m not buying it quite yet.
Scattered showers and storms will remain in the forecast into next week. | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-rainy-pattern-sticks-around-this-week/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:58Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-rainy-pattern-sticks-around-this-week/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Cloudy, rainy pattern sticks around this week
A rainy, humid weather pattern will stick around for the rest of the week along with cooler than normal high temperatures.
Clouds and rain have kept Middle Georgia cooler than normal today, with most of us seeing highs in the mid 80s.
Light rain started the day for some spots with a few storms this afternoon.
We won’t be seeing much of a change in our overall weather pattern through the next few days, so expect more rain and clouds Wednesday.
Thursday should be another repeat of this weather as well.
There are still some questions about the end of the week regarding rain chances, but at this point it looks like it will be staying rainy.
Once again, this keeps temps cooler than normal and will keep clouds around for much of the day.
Although there are some model solutions (mainly the American model) that suggest we could see some dry weather for the weekend, I’m not buying it quite yet.
Scattered showers and storms will remain in the forecast into next week. | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-rainy-pattern-sticks-around-this-week/ | 2022-08-24T02:40:58Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-rainy-pattern-sticks-around-this-week/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Cloudy skies and light showers likely Tuesday
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Overall gloomy conditions will continue to hang around Middle Georgia today.
Today
We had some scattered light showers move through Middle Georgia this morning. We are continuing to see more of them as we head into the lunchtime hours, however thunderstorm activity should hold off until later in the afternoon and evening. Once again the early rain and thick blanket of clouds are keeping temperatures cool, limiting highs to the low to mid 80s. Ambient winds from the west-northwest are also transporting slightly cooler air into the region.
We will likely see a few scattered thunderstorms/showers later this afternoon, but it will largely be overcast and mild. Conditions will remain cloudy into the overnight hours. Rain activity should be limited during the early overnight hours, however some showers are likely to fire up in parts of the region during the early morning hours of Wednesday ahead of the sunrise. Lows will be in the lower 70s (with a one or two potential upper 60s) and ambient winds will blow from the west-southwest at about 5 mph.
Tomorrow
Wednesday will be a near carbon copy of Tuesday during the daylight hours. A few scattered showers will begin the morning in Middle Georgia, clearing out ahead of lunchtime. The afternoon will see overcast conditions with only a couple of stray showers and storms. Highs will reach the low to mid 80s and ambient winds will blow from the west-southwest at about 5 mph.
Tomorrow night, however, things could potentially differ. Model runs are conflicted on what will happen after midnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning. Heavy rain that will have been plaguing Mississippi and Alabama could make its way into Middle Georgia early Thursday morning, leading to widespread wet weather out the door. However, that rain could also peter out just before it gets into Middle Georgia, resulting in a couple of small showers ahead of Thursday’s sunrise and that’s it. The more widespread our showers are tomorrow morning, however, the more widespread they are likely to be rolling into Thursday as well. Regardless, it will be cloudy with lows in the lower 70s and upper 60s.
Thursday and Beyond
Cloudy conditions will stick around Thursday following another morning with scattered light rain activity. Highs will again be kept cool in the low to mid 80s. Rain chances will remain high through Friday as well while the stationary front maintains its grip on the southeastern US. We should see some sunshine make a return over the weekend.
The tropics are beginning to wake up a bit more as we near the end of August. The NHC is watching two disturbances off of the west coast of Africa. At this time neither one is expected to form into an organized cyclone within the next 48 hours, and there is only a 20% chance for development over the next 5 days.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m). | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-skies-and-light-showers-likely-tuesday/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:04Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-skies-and-light-showers-likely-tuesday/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Cloudy skies and light showers likely Tuesday
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Overall gloomy conditions will continue to hang around Middle Georgia today.
Today
We had some scattered light showers move through Middle Georgia this morning. We are continuing to see more of them as we head into the lunchtime hours, however thunderstorm activity should hold off until later in the afternoon and evening. Once again the early rain and thick blanket of clouds are keeping temperatures cool, limiting highs to the low to mid 80s. Ambient winds from the west-northwest are also transporting slightly cooler air into the region.
We will likely see a few scattered thunderstorms/showers later this afternoon, but it will largely be overcast and mild. Conditions will remain cloudy into the overnight hours. Rain activity should be limited during the early overnight hours, however some showers are likely to fire up in parts of the region during the early morning hours of Wednesday ahead of the sunrise. Lows will be in the lower 70s (with a one or two potential upper 60s) and ambient winds will blow from the west-southwest at about 5 mph.
Tomorrow
Wednesday will be a near carbon copy of Tuesday during the daylight hours. A few scattered showers will begin the morning in Middle Georgia, clearing out ahead of lunchtime. The afternoon will see overcast conditions with only a couple of stray showers and storms. Highs will reach the low to mid 80s and ambient winds will blow from the west-southwest at about 5 mph.
Tomorrow night, however, things could potentially differ. Model runs are conflicted on what will happen after midnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning. Heavy rain that will have been plaguing Mississippi and Alabama could make its way into Middle Georgia early Thursday morning, leading to widespread wet weather out the door. However, that rain could also peter out just before it gets into Middle Georgia, resulting in a couple of small showers ahead of Thursday’s sunrise and that’s it. The more widespread our showers are tomorrow morning, however, the more widespread they are likely to be rolling into Thursday as well. Regardless, it will be cloudy with lows in the lower 70s and upper 60s.
Thursday and Beyond
Cloudy conditions will stick around Thursday following another morning with scattered light rain activity. Highs will again be kept cool in the low to mid 80s. Rain chances will remain high through Friday as well while the stationary front maintains its grip on the southeastern US. We should see some sunshine make a return over the weekend.
The tropics are beginning to wake up a bit more as we near the end of August. The NHC is watching two disturbances off of the west coast of Africa. At this time neither one is expected to form into an organized cyclone within the next 48 hours, and there is only a 20% chance for development over the next 5 days.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m). | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-skies-and-light-showers-likely-tuesday/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:04Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/cloudy-skies-and-light-showers-likely-tuesday/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Department of Juvenile Justice holds job fair
The Department of Juvenile Justice held a job fair at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center Tuesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Department of Juvenile Justice held a job fair at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center Tuesday.
Visitors brought in resumes and applied for multiple positions, including correctional officer and food service roles.
Recruiter Jessica Morrison spoke about the impact the Juvenile Justice Department has on the community.
“It gives youth a sense of community,” she said. “It gives them a sense of belonging. It makes them feel like they’re cared about more than just their mommy and daddy and school. It makes them feel like their whole community is rooting for them to be successful.”
Morrison said if you missed Tuesday’s job fair, you can always apply for positions on the Department of Juvenile Justice’s website. | https://www.41nbc.com/department-of-juvenile-justice-holds-job-fair/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:10Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/department-of-juvenile-justice-holds-job-fair/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Department of Juvenile Justice holds job fair
The Department of Juvenile Justice held a job fair at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center Tuesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Department of Juvenile Justice held a job fair at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center Tuesday.
Visitors brought in resumes and applied for multiple positions, including correctional officer and food service roles.
Recruiter Jessica Morrison spoke about the impact the Juvenile Justice Department has on the community.
“It gives youth a sense of community,” she said. “It gives them a sense of belonging. It makes them feel like they’re cared about more than just their mommy and daddy and school. It makes them feel like their whole community is rooting for them to be successful.”
Morrison said if you missed Tuesday’s job fair, you can always apply for positions on the Department of Juvenile Justice’s website. | https://www.41nbc.com/department-of-juvenile-justice-holds-job-fair/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:10Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/department-of-juvenile-justice-holds-job-fair/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former Georgia First Lady Sandra Dunagan Deal dead at 80-years-old
(41NBC/WMGT) — The former Georgia First Lady Sandra Dunagan Deal has died.
Governor Kemp made a post on social media mourning the loss of former Georgia Governor Nathan Deal’s wife, Sandra Dunagan Deal, speaking on the impact she and her work had on the state, education, as well as the mark she left on the Governor’s Mansion.
Deal visited schools in all of Georgia’s 159 counties and 181 school districts, in order to read to students and demonstrate her care and kindness for them.
Kemp had this to say:
“As she will for so many Georgians, Mrs. Deal will remain steadfast in our hearts and memories, just as her family will be in our prayers during this time of mourning. As she goes to await them in a greater world, we ask all Georgians to join us in celebrating her life and contributions to a thankful state.”
Marty, the girls, and I are deeply saddened by the passing of former First Lady Sandra Dunagan Deal.
Please read our full message as we pray for Governor Deal and his family during this time of mourning.https://t.co/6hj4kTFoDn pic.twitter.com/TYUQe7fbDo
— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) August 23, 2022
Deal lived to be 80-years-old. | https://www.41nbc.com/former-georgia-first-lady-sandra-dunagan-deal-dies/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:16Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/former-georgia-first-lady-sandra-dunagan-deal-dies/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Former Georgia First Lady Sandra Dunagan Deal dead at 80-years-old
(41NBC/WMGT) — The former Georgia First Lady Sandra Dunagan Deal has died.
Governor Kemp made a post on social media mourning the loss of former Georgia Governor Nathan Deal’s wife, Sandra Dunagan Deal, speaking on the impact she and her work had on the state, education, as well as the mark she left on the Governor’s Mansion.
Deal visited schools in all of Georgia’s 159 counties and 181 school districts, in order to read to students and demonstrate her care and kindness for them.
Kemp had this to say:
“As she will for so many Georgians, Mrs. Deal will remain steadfast in our hearts and memories, just as her family will be in our prayers during this time of mourning. As she goes to await them in a greater world, we ask all Georgians to join us in celebrating her life and contributions to a thankful state.”
Marty, the girls, and I are deeply saddened by the passing of former First Lady Sandra Dunagan Deal.
Please read our full message as we pray for Governor Deal and his family during this time of mourning.https://t.co/6hj4kTFoDn pic.twitter.com/TYUQe7fbDo
— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) August 23, 2022
Deal lived to be 80-years-old. | https://www.41nbc.com/former-georgia-first-lady-sandra-dunagan-deal-dies/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:16Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/former-georgia-first-lady-sandra-dunagan-deal-dies/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from August 23, 2022
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Restaurant Report Card: Food service inspection scores August 15-19
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Peach County Schools benefiting from virtual medical visits.
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Macon hosting Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-129/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:22Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-129/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News
Top stories from August 23, 2022
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Restaurant Report Card: Food service inspection scores August 15-19
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Peach County Schools benefiting from virtual medical visits.
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Macon hosting Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week
- For other stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-129/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:22Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/icymi-stories-you-may-have-missed-today-on-41nbc-news-129/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Macon-Bibb Fire Department starts annual contest aimed at fire prevention
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department is getting ready for "Fire Prevention Week" with an essay and poster contest.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon-Bibb Fire Department is getting ready for “Fire Prevention Week” with an essay and poster contest.
The department says its goal is to get people excited about safety and writing.
The contest is open to K-5 students as well as 8th and 12th graders in Macon’s public and private schools.
Students in K-5 can submit a poster on fire prevention, and three winners will be selected. They can win up to $75.
8th graders will be submitting an essay on fire prevention, and three winners will be selected. The prize money for them is up to $150.
The department will be awarding 12 12th graders this year. Two of them will receive a $500 scholarship, while the remaining 10 will receive $110.
Fire Safety Instructor Jeremy Webb says the goal is to highlight the importance of having an escape plan.
“We definitely get hundreds of essays and posters throughout the whole Macon-Bibb County, and so it’s really a hard decision,” he said. “And this year, I’m sure that we’re going to see an increase now that we have an opportunity to give out more prizes.”
The deadline for the contest is September 3. Essays must be submitted through email at jwebb@maconbibb.us. Posters must be submitted in person at 1111 First St. in Macon.
All winners will be announced at the department’s opening ceremony in October.
For more information on rules, find the department on Facebook. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-starts-annual-contest-aimed-fire-prevention/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:28Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-starts-annual-contest-aimed-fire-prevention/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Macon-Bibb Fire Department starts annual contest aimed at fire prevention
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department is getting ready for "Fire Prevention Week" with an essay and poster contest.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon-Bibb Fire Department is getting ready for “Fire Prevention Week” with an essay and poster contest.
The department says its goal is to get people excited about safety and writing.
The contest is open to K-5 students as well as 8th and 12th graders in Macon’s public and private schools.
Students in K-5 can submit a poster on fire prevention, and three winners will be selected. They can win up to $75.
8th graders will be submitting an essay on fire prevention, and three winners will be selected. The prize money for them is up to $150.
The department will be awarding 12 12th graders this year. Two of them will receive a $500 scholarship, while the remaining 10 will receive $110.
Fire Safety Instructor Jeremy Webb says the goal is to highlight the importance of having an escape plan.
“We definitely get hundreds of essays and posters throughout the whole Macon-Bibb County, and so it’s really a hard decision,” he said. “And this year, I’m sure that we’re going to see an increase now that we have an opportunity to give out more prizes.”
The deadline for the contest is September 3. Essays must be submitted through email at jwebb@maconbibb.us. Posters must be submitted in person at 1111 First St. in Macon.
All winners will be announced at the department’s opening ceremony in October.
For more information on rules, find the department on Facebook. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-starts-annual-contest-aimed-fire-prevention/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:28Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-bibb-fire-department-starts-annual-contest-aimed-fire-prevention/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Macon hosting Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week
The Terminal Station is hosting the annual Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Terminal Station is hosting the annual Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week.
Throughout the week, downtown professionals from around Georgia will participate in classes and presentations that include how to apply for grants, and loans, activity ideas and tourism.
It serves as a networking opportunity and a chance for downtown professionals to see what other cities are doing and then take ideas back to their cities.
Chair of the Mainstreet Macon Board, Trish Whitley, said the conference is great exposure for Macon.
“These are people that are downtown champions, and they’ll go back and tell their communities, ‘Hey, I saw this in Macon or that in Macon, and we should try to do this. Macon has it going on, and we should try to do something that Macon’s doing,’ so that’s really great,” Whitley said.
Connie Tabor, the Community Development Director in Toccoa, said she’s going use lessons learned immediately.
“We have a local theater in Toccoa, so we were able to gather some information to take back home as far as applying for grants to help with restoration and an addition to our theater, so that’s just one example of something that I’ve learned this morning that I can take back home and implement,” she said.
The conference runs through August 25. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-hosting-georgia-downtown-association-conference-this-week/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:34Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-hosting-georgia-downtown-association-conference-this-week/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Macon hosting Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week
The Terminal Station is hosting the annual Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Terminal Station is hosting the annual Georgia Downtown Association Conference this week.
Throughout the week, downtown professionals from around Georgia will participate in classes and presentations that include how to apply for grants, and loans, activity ideas and tourism.
It serves as a networking opportunity and a chance for downtown professionals to see what other cities are doing and then take ideas back to their cities.
Chair of the Mainstreet Macon Board, Trish Whitley, said the conference is great exposure for Macon.
“These are people that are downtown champions, and they’ll go back and tell their communities, ‘Hey, I saw this in Macon or that in Macon, and we should try to do this. Macon has it going on, and we should try to do something that Macon’s doing,’ so that’s really great,” Whitley said.
Connie Tabor, the Community Development Director in Toccoa, said she’s going use lessons learned immediately.
“We have a local theater in Toccoa, so we were able to gather some information to take back home as far as applying for grants to help with restoration and an addition to our theater, so that’s just one example of something that I’ve learned this morning that I can take back home and implement,” she said.
The conference runs through August 25. | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-hosting-georgia-downtown-association-conference-this-week/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:34Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/macon-hosting-georgia-downtown-association-conference-this-week/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Morning Business Report: Pfizer and BioNTech create booster shot targeting Omicron
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have asked the FDA to authorize updated COVID booster shots that target the Omicron subvariant.
Ford slashes 3,000 white-collar jobs in bid to lower costs as it transitions to electric vehicles.
Coffee and pastry shops are avoiding the inflation hit that restaurants have seen.
A CNBC/Momentive poll finds Americans worry that student debt forgiveness could have unintended consequences. Respondents were mixed on whether student loan debt should be forgiven. | https://www.41nbc.com/morning-business-report-pfizer-and-biontech-create-booster-shot-targeting-omicron/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:40Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/morning-business-report-pfizer-and-biontech-create-booster-shot-targeting-omicron/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Morning Business Report: Pfizer and BioNTech create booster shot targeting Omicron
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have asked the FDA to authorize updated COVID booster shots that target the Omicron subvariant.
Ford slashes 3,000 white-collar jobs in bid to lower costs as it transitions to electric vehicles.
Coffee and pastry shops are avoiding the inflation hit that restaurants have seen.
A CNBC/Momentive poll finds Americans worry that student debt forgiveness could have unintended consequences. Respondents were mixed on whether student loan debt should be forgiven. | https://www.41nbc.com/morning-business-report-pfizer-and-biontech-create-booster-shot-targeting-omicron/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:40Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/morning-business-report-pfizer-and-biontech-create-booster-shot-targeting-omicron/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Peach County Schools benefiting from virtual medical visits
Peach County students and staff don't have to go far for their medical needs.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Peach County students and staff don’t have to go far for their medical needs.
That’s because Atrium Health Navicent has partnered with the school district to provide virtual visits.
The school district is providing meetings with a doctor through a secure link.
“It just works wonders, and it kept me from having to leave my job to seek medical assistance away from the school and my principal having to find coverage for my classes,” teacher Joy Felton said.
So far, 30 teachers and students have benefited. Felton says the process is simple.
“We go through everything from demographics to clinical verification,” Felton said. “Everything was quick. If I had questions, they were able to answer my questions, and everything was just quick.”
Atrium Health Navicent President and CEO Delvecchio Finley says the Peach County School District is the first to use this secure link to be connected to a doctor.
Parents can also participate.
“They can log in through our secure network and participate in the visit so that they’re interacting jointly with their kid and the provider,” Finley said. “Basically we’re recreating this setting where a parent and a child is in an exam room virtually as they would be if they came into a clinic setting.”
Peach County High School Nurse Lisa Champion sees about 50 students a day.
“Students that I see like every day or two or three times a day, they come in and say, ‘Oh, I still got a headache,’ or they’re running a fever, or, ‘I’ve still got the stomach ache.'”
Champion says the virtual visits help keep students in schools. It also helps those who might not have transportation.
For more information, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/peach-county-schools-benefiting-from-virtual-medical-visits/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:47Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/peach-county-schools-benefiting-from-virtual-medical-visits/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Peach County Schools benefiting from virtual medical visits
Peach County students and staff don't have to go far for their medical needs.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Peach County students and staff don’t have to go far for their medical needs.
That’s because Atrium Health Navicent has partnered with the school district to provide virtual visits.
The school district is providing meetings with a doctor through a secure link.
“It just works wonders, and it kept me from having to leave my job to seek medical assistance away from the school and my principal having to find coverage for my classes,” teacher Joy Felton said.
So far, 30 teachers and students have benefited. Felton says the process is simple.
“We go through everything from demographics to clinical verification,” Felton said. “Everything was quick. If I had questions, they were able to answer my questions, and everything was just quick.”
Atrium Health Navicent President and CEO Delvecchio Finley says the Peach County School District is the first to use this secure link to be connected to a doctor.
Parents can also participate.
“They can log in through our secure network and participate in the visit so that they’re interacting jointly with their kid and the provider,” Finley said. “Basically we’re recreating this setting where a parent and a child is in an exam room virtually as they would be if they came into a clinic setting.”
Peach County High School Nurse Lisa Champion sees about 50 students a day.
“Students that I see like every day or two or three times a day, they come in and say, ‘Oh, I still got a headache,’ or they’re running a fever, or, ‘I’ve still got the stomach ache.'”
Champion says the virtual visits help keep students in schools. It also helps those who might not have transportation.
For more information, click here. | https://www.41nbc.com/peach-county-schools-benefiting-from-virtual-medical-visits/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:47Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/peach-county-schools-benefiting-from-virtual-medical-visits/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Pennsylvania man arrested in Monroe County after pursuit in stolen vehicle
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A pursuit in Monroe County Tuesday morning led to the arrest of a Pennsylvania man in a stolen vehicle from Delaware.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, GSP notified the Sheriff’s Office of a a pursuit on I-475 in which a vehicle was trying to flee. MCSO Deputies found the suspect leaving the interstate at exit 15, losing control and leaving multiple car parts on the side of the road. After the vehicle regained control, he made a right turn on GA19 and then came to 10279 Estes Road.
An investigator found the suspect taking items from the car at this address– the suspect spotted the investigator and attempted to run away, but was caught and arrested. The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Diamond Joell of Pennsylvania, while the vehicle he was in had been stolen out of Delaware.
Joell was taken to the Sheriff’s Office and is now facing charges of Theft by Bringing Stolen Property into State, as well as multiple traffic violations. | https://www.41nbc.com/pennsylvania-man-arrested-in-monroe-county-after-pursuit-in-stolen-vehicle/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:53Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/pennsylvania-man-arrested-in-monroe-county-after-pursuit-in-stolen-vehicle/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Pennsylvania man arrested in Monroe County after pursuit in stolen vehicle
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A pursuit in Monroe County Tuesday morning led to the arrest of a Pennsylvania man in a stolen vehicle from Delaware.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, GSP notified the Sheriff’s Office of a a pursuit on I-475 in which a vehicle was trying to flee. MCSO Deputies found the suspect leaving the interstate at exit 15, losing control and leaving multiple car parts on the side of the road. After the vehicle regained control, he made a right turn on GA19 and then came to 10279 Estes Road.
An investigator found the suspect taking items from the car at this address– the suspect spotted the investigator and attempted to run away, but was caught and arrested. The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Diamond Joell of Pennsylvania, while the vehicle he was in had been stolen out of Delaware.
Joell was taken to the Sheriff’s Office and is now facing charges of Theft by Bringing Stolen Property into State, as well as multiple traffic violations. | https://www.41nbc.com/pennsylvania-man-arrested-in-monroe-county-after-pursuit-in-stolen-vehicle/ | 2022-08-24T02:41:53Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/pennsylvania-man-arrested-in-monroe-county-after-pursuit-in-stolen-vehicle/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Subaru of Macon donates $500 to teachers at Alexander II Magnet School
A car dealership in Macon is giving back to local educators.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A car dealership in Macon is giving back to local educators.
Subaru of Macon presented 10 new teachers at Alexander II Magnet School $500.
The donations are part of Subaru’s initiative to support education, called “Subaru Loves Learning.”
Teachers can use the donations to purchase classroom supplies through adoptaclassroom.com.
“I am so excited and so happy that we will have this opportunity for our new teachers,” Alexander II Principal Walsetta Miller said. “And we truly appreciate Subaru and what they’re doing for our new teachers.”
Subaru says it plans to donate to more schools in the area at later dates. | https://www.41nbc.com/subaru-of-macon-donates-500-to-teachers-at-alexander-ii-magnet-school/ | 2022-08-24T02:42:05Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/subaru-of-macon-donates-500-to-teachers-at-alexander-ii-magnet-school/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Subaru of Macon donates $500 to teachers at Alexander II Magnet School
A car dealership in Macon is giving back to local educators.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A car dealership in Macon is giving back to local educators.
Subaru of Macon presented 10 new teachers at Alexander II Magnet School $500.
The donations are part of Subaru’s initiative to support education, called “Subaru Loves Learning.”
Teachers can use the donations to purchase classroom supplies through adoptaclassroom.com.
“I am so excited and so happy that we will have this opportunity for our new teachers,” Alexander II Principal Walsetta Miller said. “And we truly appreciate Subaru and what they’re doing for our new teachers.”
Subaru says it plans to donate to more schools in the area at later dates. | https://www.41nbc.com/subaru-of-macon-donates-500-to-teachers-at-alexander-ii-magnet-school/ | 2022-08-24T02:42:05Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/subaru-of-macon-donates-500-to-teachers-at-alexander-ii-magnet-school/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
T Mart robbed at gunpoint
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Just before 7:00 a.m. this (Tuesday) morning, a male with a gun entered the T Mart, at 1208 Jeffersonville Road in Macon.
He demanded money from the clerk and after getting the cash he fled the store on foot. The clerk was checked by EMS and cleared on the scene with minor injuries.
The suspect was completely covered in dark clothes with his face hidden.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/t-mart-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 2022-08-24T02:42:11Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/t-mart-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
T Mart robbed at gunpoint
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Just before 7:00 a.m. this (Tuesday) morning, a male with a gun entered the T Mart, at 1208 Jeffersonville Road in Macon.
He demanded money from the clerk and after getting the cash he fled the store on foot. The clerk was checked by EMS and cleared on the scene with minor injuries.
The suspect was completely covered in dark clothes with his face hidden.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME. | https://www.41nbc.com/t-mart-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 2022-08-24T02:42:11Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/t-mart-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz’s campaign is taking a jab at Democratic opponent John Fetterman after the lieutenant governor’s campaign ridiculed — and raised money off of — a video showing the GOP hopeful shopping for groceries while complaining about the price of crudité.
“If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly,” Rachel Tripp, Oz’s senior communications advisor, said in a statement, which was first reported by Insider.
The statement was criticized by Fetterman in a tweet on Tuesday evening.
“I had a stroke. I survived it. I’m truly so grateful to still be here today,” he said. “I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could *never* imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges.”
On Tuesday, Fetterman’s campaign released a letter signed by over 100 Pennsylvania doctors warning against Oz’s candidacy. In an event promoting the letter, Val Arkoosh, a physician who ran in the Democratic Senate primary earlier this year, slammed Oz’s comments.
“No real doctor, or any decent human being, to be honest, would ever mock a stroke victim who is recovering from that stroke, in the way that Dr. Oz is mocking John Fetterman,” Arkoosh said.
At issue was a video made in April that showed Oz grocery shopping as he sought to make the case that inflation was making items such as asparagus, broccoli, guacamole, and salsa more expensive. In the video, he referred to the store name as “Wegner’s,” what appeared to be a combination of Wegmans and Redner’s.
Oz also referred to the items as crudité, which Fetterman mocked, saying in a tweet, “in PA we call this a… veggie tray.”
Fetterman’s campaign said it had raised more than half a million dollars off the viral video within a day, including more than $65,000 from a sticker that has the phrase “Wegners: Let them eat Crudite” on it.
The produce-centric tit-for-tat comes as Fetterman’s campaign seeks to portray Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey who is out of touch with Pennsylvania voters.
Oz’s team, meanwhile, has sought to show Fetterman as inauthentically engaging with voters on the ground, at one point sending out a “basement tracker” update of the Senate hopeful.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, keeping the Democrat off the campaign trail for several months.
The Senate race, one of many that could determine control of the currently 50-50 upper chamber, has become one of the most closely watched in the nation. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/oz-campaign-bites-down-on-crudite-if-fetterman-had-ever-eaten-a-vegetable-maybe-he-wouldnt-have-had-a-major-stroke/ | 2022-08-24T02:43:32Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/oz-campaign-bites-down-on-crudite-if-fetterman-had-ever-eaten-a-vegetable-maybe-he-wouldnt-have-had-a-major-stroke/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The City of Grand Rapids has been awarded a grant for Cure Violence.
On Tuesday, The U.S. Department of Justice awarded the city $600,000. It is the largest grant that Cure Violence has ever received.
The goal for the grant is to provide support for identifying and treating high-risk individuals. The grant will also be used to partner with community organizations and discourage the use of violence. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/cure-violence-receives-600-000-grant | 2022-08-24T03:00:42Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/grand-rapids/cure-violence-receives-600-000-grant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) — Tuesday night in Warren, Ukrainian Americans held a candlelight vigil to remember victims of the war and celebrate their independence.
At St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church, it was a somber yet resilient crowd. Many in attendance have loved ones in Ukraine, which is now approaching six months of fighting.
“The most difficult six months in the life of every Ukrainian,” said Fr. Daniel Schaicoski, pastor of Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hamtramck.
On Wednesday, Ukranians will celebrate 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union. But six months ago to the day, Russia invaded.
“If Russia is in Ukraine, there is no peace. They have to get out of there. That's just how it is,” Schaicoski said.
Ukrainian American veterans were on hand setting a wreath in memory of lives lost while local Ukrainian religious leaders led prayers for them and all of Ukraine.
“That's the best way of celebrating Ukraine’s independence is to pray for us to defeat the beast from the east,” Schaicoski said.
As Ukraine continues its fight against Russia, Ukrainians in America will continue to show support, hoping next year will truly be Independence Day once again.
Another event to mark this important date will be held Wednesday in downtown Detroit at Hart Plaza. That rally runs from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national-news/russia-ukraine-conflict/community-honors-ukraine-as-war-hits-6-months-independence-day-nears | 2022-08-24T03:00:55Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national-news/russia-ukraine-conflict/community-honors-ukraine-as-war-hits-6-months-independence-day-nears | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Sophia Daly was 13, the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing and she was looking for a hobby to pass the time. So she took out the old sewing machine left to her by her late grandmother, found two blue pillowcases under her bed and got to work.
"I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and learned how to sew," Daly said. "I call it my Cinderella dress because it’s light blue."
Daly describes her design style as historical wear. She’s made dresses that's designs date back to the 1500s.
"You see clothes now and they are really pretty, but I don’t know, I want more," she said. "I want the pizzazz, I want the ruffles and the fabric."
Daly’s mother, Gina, remembers the day they were taking a drive through the neighborhood when her daughter found inspiration.
“She found a couch on the side of the road that they were getting rid of and she was like, 'Mom I want fabric,'" Gina Daly said.
While 2020 was a difficult year for everyone, Gina Daly said her daughter found joy in designing and sewing.
“She will tell you that it was the best year of her life,” she said. “She loved the year 2020 ... it showed her a talent that she plans to turn into her career, designing, with an emphasis on historical fashion.”
When she was going into the eighth grade, Daly elected to learn virtually, sewing for hours every day after her studies.
Gina Daly said she believes her child is a “teen prodigy" in costume and fashion design.
Two years after she first picked up those blue pillowcases — and more than 14 dresses later, Daly is hosting a runway fashion show to raise money for The Dragonfly Foundation, a local nonprofit that brings joy and support to families who are living through childhood cancer.
“I have always told my daughter to use her talent for good and I love that at 15 she’s already starting,” Gina Daly said.
Daly wants to attend Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris.
Anyone who wishes to donate to The Dragon Fly Foundation in Daly's name can text 23FFTC15 to 71777.
This story was originally published by WCPO in Cincinnati, Ohio. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/teen-puts-sewing-talents-to-good-use-with-fundraiser-for-nonprofit | 2022-08-24T03:01:35Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/teen-puts-sewing-talents-to-good-use-with-fundraiser-for-nonprofit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, director, Air National Guard, holds a FIM-92 Stinger Man-Portable, Air Defense Missile System (MANPAD), at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2022. The MANPAD electronic simulator is used by the Idaho Air National Guard’s 266th Range Squadron to provide realistic training for air forces from across the world. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur)
This work, Director of the Air National Guard tours Idaho National Guard [Image 22 of 22], by MSgt Becky Vanshur, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7385180/director-air-national-guard-tours-idaho-national-guard | 2022-08-24T03:03:46Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7385180/director-air-national-guard-tours-idaho-national-guard | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, director, Air National Guard, shakes hands with Mrs. Keri Elkins, executive assistant to senior leaders of the Idaho National Guard (IDNG), at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2022. Elkins is a civilian employee of the IDNG and fills a critical role in supporting the organization. .(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur)
This work, Director of the Air National Guard tours Idaho National Guard [Image 22 of 22], by MSgt Becky Vanshur, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7385183/director-air-national-guard-tours-idaho-national-guard | 2022-08-24T03:04:04Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7385183/director-air-national-guard-tours-idaho-national-guard | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Michael Garshak, adjutant general, Idaho National Guard (IDNG), briefs U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, director, Air National Guard, during a meeting at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2022. Garshak, who is responsible for both the Idaho Army and Air National Guard, directly spoke with Loh regarding IDNG questions and concerns. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur)
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U.S. Air Force Col. Elizabeth Sumner, right, commander, 124th Mission Support Group, 124th Fighter Wing, Idaho National Guard, listens to a question from Lt. Col. Anthony Skeesick, commander, 124th Logistics Readiness Squadron, at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2022. Skeesick was speaking with Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, director, Air National Guard during a senior leader meeting. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur)
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Mrs. Dianne Loh, right center, spouse of U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, director, Air National Guard, learns more about the Idaho National Guard’s drill weekend day youth camp at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2022. Mrs. Loh often attends unit visits with her spouse as an advocate for various helping hands organizations on each base. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Joshua C. Allmaras)
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(The Hill) – Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz’s campaign is taking a jab at Democratic opponent John Fetterman after the lieutenant governor’s campaign ridiculed — and raised money off of — a video showing the GOP hopeful shopping for groceries while complaining about the price of crudité.
“If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly,” Rachel Tripp, Oz’s senior communications advisor, said in a statement, which was first reported by Insider.
The statement was criticized by Fetterman in a tweet on Tuesday evening.
“I had a stroke. I survived it. I’m truly so grateful to still be here today,” he said. “I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could *never* imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges.”
On Tuesday, Fetterman’s campaign released a letter signed by over 100 Pennsylvania doctors warning against Oz’s candidacy. In an event promoting the letter, Val Arkoosh, a physician who ran in the Democratic Senate primary earlier this year, slammed Oz’s comments.
“No real doctor, or any decent human being, to be honest, would ever mock a stroke victim who is recovering from that stroke, in the way that Dr. Oz is mocking John Fetterman,” Arkoosh said.
At issue was a video made in April that showed Oz grocery shopping as he sought to make the case that inflation was making items such as asparagus, broccoli, guacamole, and salsa more expensive. In the video, he referred to the store name as “Wegner’s,” what appeared to be a combination of Wegmans and Redner’s.
Oz also referred to the items as crudité, which Fetterman mocked, saying in a tweet, “in PA we call this a… veggie tray.”
Fetterman’s campaign said it had raised more than half a million dollars off the viral video within a day, including more than $65,000 from a sticker that has the phrase “Wegners: Let them eat Crudite” on it.
The produce-centric tit-for-tat comes as Fetterman’s campaign seeks to portray Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey who is out of touch with Pennsylvania voters.
Oz’s team, meanwhile, has sought to show Fetterman as inauthentically engaging with voters on the ground, at one point sending out a “basement tracker” update of the Senate hopeful.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, keeping the Democrat off the campaign trail for several months.
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BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández to 12 years in prison and bar her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally.
“We are faced with the biggest corruption maneuver that this country has ever known,” prosecutor Diego Luciani said in his closing arguments in the trial of Fernández, who was president of Argentina from 2007 and 2015, before becoming vice president in 2019.
The alleged fraud against the state cost the country’s coffers around $1 billion, Luciani said.
The former president has vehemently denied charges against her in the three-year trial and has said the judges already have the sentence against her “written and even signed.”
Fernández has characterized the trial as an effort to use the courts to stop her from ever holding elected office again and her allies have characterized it as a political prosecution.
The presidential office came out in support of Fernández, saying she is the victim of a “persecution by the courts and media.”
Current President Alberto Fernández also expressed “solidarity” with his number two in a social media post.
Luciani told judges they will have the final say on whether “corruption or justice” prevails.
Although Fernández has faced numerous accusations of corruption for events that took place while she was in office, this marks the first time a trial against the former president has gotten this far to include a prosecutor formally requesting a sentence.
Fernández, 69, is accused of leading a conspiracy that involved awarding 51 public works contracts for roadworks to Lázaro Báez in southern Santa Cruz province. Many of those public works were never finished.
Prosecutors say Báez, a former bank employee who went on to become a public works mogul, created the company Austral Construcciones as a way to win state tenders.
An additional 12 people are also indicted in the case, including Báez and Julio De Vido, the minister who was in charge of public works during Fernández’s administration.
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Car service with bulletproof vehicles, armed drivers available in multiple cities -- including Chicago
CHICAGO - A new car service is hitting the rideshare industry, and you can catch it in Chicago.
Miami rapper Zoey Dollaz launched a company that provides bulletproof cars and armed drivers.
The company was inspired by the rapper's own brush with death.
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"I was on the highway with Young Thug, and we got sprayed on the highway about 75 rounds, and I was like this is the perfect idea for me. I'm going to create like an Uber service," said Zoey.
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Rock climber from New Zealand slapped with $600K hospital bill after Yosemite fall
A woman from New Zealand is stuck with an over $600,000 hospital bill after she fell nearly 80 feet during a rock climbing excursion in Yosemite National Park earlier this month.
Anna Parsons, 21, was rock climbing the "Snake Dike" route on Half Dome peak in Yosemite with her friend, Jack Evans, when she fell, breaking nearly every bone in her body. Fortunately, her helmet saved her head from injury but was broken into several pieces upon impact.
"I think she was experienced enough and from what I’ve heard she’s been doing, the weeks and months leading up to the trip, she’d been going every day, trying to get really good and working on her technique. Things still happen, I guess, no matter your experience level," said Ben Parsons, Anna’s older brother.
Anna seen during one of her climbing trips. (The Parsons family)
The 80-foot fall
Anna and Jack were lead climbing, which involves the use of safety ropes and clips are attached to quickdraws (equipment that allows the rope to run freely while leading), according to USAclimbing.org. Climbers will clip into the quickdraws as they are established along the route.
"Basically, it was called a runout slab. A runout is where it’s sparsely bolted so you might have 10 or 20 meters between each one. I think she was climbing and clipped in and then went around a ridge that was coming out. I think she was a few distance away from the next clip, so didn’t see it. She might have been 20 meters up from the bolt, the clip that she had gone in, and then she saw, ‘Aw, yeah I better go down to get that one.’ So she started climbing down to clip into that one that she’d missed and that’s when she fell," Ben explained. And while he wasn’t sure it played a factor in his sister’s fall, Ben also mentioned it had rained the day before the climb.
FILE - Half Dome from Washburn Point in Yosemite National Park on Aug. 4, 2021. (Mark Hume/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Ben also noted that he had seen fellow climbers comment on his sister’s accident on social media and many of them knew the exact spot where Anna had fallen and nearly fell themselves.
Jack, Anna’s climbing partner and friend, climbed down as quickly as possible and called 911 after she fell. The search and rescue team was there within 30 minutes to an hour, which sounded like a long time but, according to Ben, Anna and Jack were climbing in a fairly remote area. He noted that Jack was lucky to even get cell reception at their location.
Anna was rushed to the closest hospital where she endured two surgeries, was bound in casts and got many stitches. She had to make the difficult decision to amputate her left leg from the knee down but despite that, she was going to survive and was in good spirits about her recovery — that was until she learned about her hospital bill.
Anna in her hospital bed. (The Parsons family)
Hospital bills: ‘We were kind of freaking out’
After the family got word of what happened to Anna, her parents got on the quickest flight to the United States to be by their daughter’s bedside and after about a week in the hospital, Ben said he and his father figured it was time to settle the finances.
"Me and my dad were like, ‘Aw, we should probably sort out the financial side of things with the travel insurance.’ And I think, coming from New Zealand to Australia, where you don’t pay for health care out of pocket, we were kind of like, ‘Aw yeah, shouldn’t be a problem.’ We thought she might have had a travel insurance that was extremely comprehensive that would be up to millions of dollars or whatever, but she had one that covers up to $250,000, which I guess on a usual trip it would cover, that’s probably what Anna had thought — $250,000, that’s so much money when she’s earning like $10,000 a year, if that, because she’s a student. So she thought that would obviously be heaps," Ben explained.
While Anna did take what seemed like reasonable precautions to travel abroad, her insurance coverage was nowhere near the full amount the hospital was charging her.
"My mom and dad were talking with health insurance and the hospital and they got a rundown of what the costs were. They found out, it was $4,000 U.S. a day for just the hospital bed and then, I think the surgeries were like $190,000 each, and she had two of them, might be more because one took four hours and one took six hours. And she had a spinal fusion that I think was a bit more on top of it. We added it all up and converted it to New Zealand dollars and it was maybe $1- to $1.5-million, so, yeah, a lot of money," Ben said.
"Initially we were kind of freaking out and my parents were thinking they’ll have to sell their house. So we were like, ‘Whoa, this is next level,’" Ben added.
Ben said in New Zealand, a system has been put in place which covers health care expenses when someone experiences an accident.
"ACC, Accident Compensation Corporation pays for any expenses that have occurred as a result of an accident. So any kind of accident like a car accident or rock climbing accident or work accident, it’s all covered. And they’ll pay 80% of your wage if you’ve lost work," Ben said. "So yeah, going to the U.S. and having this happen was quite a culture shock and something we were not really prepared for."
Anna resting in a wheelchair at the hospital. (The Parsons family)
What’s next
After receiving the immense medical bill, and at the advisement of the hospital, Anna’s family applied for a grant which should help cover nearly $500,000 of bills, but that’s only if she’s approved.
"They applied for a grant from the hospital to cover the hospital costs, like the $4,000 a day and then the spinal fusion surgery, so they’re still waiting to hear back," Ben said.
Unfortunately, the grant Anna’s parents applied for would not cover the additional surgeries due to the hospital contracting surgeons who worked outside of that network.
In addition to those extra charges, Anna’s family is hoping to get her home as soon as possible so that they don’t keep adding to the enormous medical bill they already have. As soon as she’s able to come home, New Zealand will cover any health expenses from there, Ben explained.
"They’re looking at an air ambulance to get Anna back to New Zealand at some point because she probably can’t just jump on a regular flight. She’ll have to have doctors there and be lying down on the plane and there’s risks of blood clots and that kind of thing. That would cost $100,000 or more to add on, so that may be an extra cost depending on when she does come," Ben said.
Anna’s eldest sister started a Give a Little account, which is basically New Zealand’s version of a GoFundMe, to help cover any additional expenses should the grant not come through, Ben said.
"She’s in good spirits. She sent a video of her moving her legs and of her wounds that have been healing up, so yeah, she’s keeping positive and talking about what kind of prosthetic she might get," he continued.
Ben said his sister will continue to enjoy her adventurous and outdoorsy hobbies even after the accident and hopes people will understand, just because something bad happens or might happen, people should still do what they love.
"Otherwise, if we were worried about stuff we would never leave the house, you know? That’s not much of a life, really," Ben said. "We’re just grateful that Anna is alive and we’re really thankful for all the supporters."
While the family waits to get approved for the grant, their Givealittle account has raised nearly $281,000 as of August 23.
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CAMBRIDGE, Md.- The Mayor of Cambridge will have to be decided next month. City officials have tallied the votes but none of the candidates met the more than 50% threshold needed to win.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Documents unsealed by the judge in the retrial of the men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reveal that a juror was suspected and subsequently cleared of possible misconduct as the trial was just beginning.
Joshua Blanchard, defense attorney for Barry Croft, first alerted Judge Robert Jonker that he had received a report of possible juror misconduct on the evening of August 10, the first day of testimony in the trial.
Blanchard told the judge he felt the matter should be looked into in a "non-public way" in an effort to "limit the risk of publicity that could affect the fairness of the process as it unfolds."
The next day, defense attorneys and prosecutors were called into the judge's chambers to discuss the matter.
Blanchard explained that his office received the report from an alleged co-worker of the juror in question.
According to the tip received, at some point before the trial, the juror told a colleague that they had received a juror summons, saying they hoped to be picked for the upcoming kidnap plot trial.
The recently unsealed document explains the report alleged that, "the subject Juror expressed a strong opinion about the Defendants’ guilt and indicated that if chosen, he or she would make sure that the Defendants were found guilty."
After the meeting, Judge Jonker decided to proceed with the trial as planned.
"It would have needlessly wasted the time of the jury, the witnesses, and the parties to delay trial under the circumstances," the document says.
The court's jury clerk then went about looking into the report.
According to the document, the clerk called the person who made the report to Blanchard, and found that the person had not talked directly to the juror in question.
"The information the reporting coworker provided had come secondhand through another coworker of both the reporting individual and the subject Juror. The reporting coworker had no direct contact with the subject Juror about the Juror’s feelings about this case, jury service, or anything about the instant matter," the document says.
"He did not even know for sure if the subject Juror was serving on this case."
The clerk apparently tried to speak with the co-worker who had spoken directly to the juror, but "that coworker had reportedly expressed a desire not to speak or otherwise be identified, and the person who did call refused to identify the person."
Defense attorneys and prosecutors were notified of what the jury clerk had learned.
Judge Jonker then decided that he would have a conversation with the juror in private, away from attorneys or prosecutors. Jonker agreed to give both sides a transcript of his conversation.
The government agreed to this approach, while Blanchard was opposed.
Blanchard also said that he was concerned the juror was "somehow manipulating the jury during trial to ensure an allegedly desired outcome."
He filed a brief with the court later that day further expressing his objection to Judge Jonker's approach in handling the juror.
While the brief was initially filed on the court's public docket, Judge Jonker quickly sealed it's contents.
Judge Jonker found after a conversation with the juror that they would be able to continue to serve, and deliver an impartial verdict.
He wrote, "Interactions with other jurors, to the extent court personnel can observe it, evince no hushed whispers or other indicia of a desire to manipulate. And the Juror’s behavior in the jury box is entirely inconsistent with someone who has a made a predetermined decision to find the defendants guilty.
"The Juror has consistently been attentive and engaged during both the government’s presentations and each defendant’s cross."
Judge Jonker decided to unseal documents pertaining to the potential juror misconduct just hours after the jury returned guilty verdicts on all of the counts against Fox and Croft.
When Blanchard was asked about the issue outside the courthouse after the verdicts, he said, "I believe that justice should happen in public."
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"Our kids are fired up. We've got a good group of guys, they've worked really hard. I think they've bonded well as a team and today is just a chance to compete and get a little better," said Head Coach Joe Schwander.
Forest Hills Eastern enters this season with high energy after having a 5-5 season and this year they're looking for more.
"Every year we want to improve. We're looking to do that. Last year we were 5-5 if you include the playoffs. We just want to do better than that. Every year we just want to get better," said senior running back Bryson Kuzdzal.
"We just kinda ave to rely on each other. And work on getting better even when it's the hard times and the rough teams. But we're always looking forward to learning. Always looking forward to being more physical, more aggressive. Win some championships. That's always the goal so I feel like we'll all learn as a team," said senior defensive tackle Austin Fenech.
This is Coach Schwander's 4th season with the Falcons after previously coaching at Belding. He says that his goals for the team are the same from the day he started.
"The expectation is the same every year. I don't know if it's third year or fourth year. I think you teach from the learning and the kids want to be taught so our kids are no different. They want to learn everything and compete, and we're working like crazy as coaches to help prepare them and we just have a great group of guys that are excited to play football," said Schwander.
For junior tight end Jake Heemstra, each day they work hard. Starters haven't been named yet and they know that those roles can be changed at any minute.
"We really pushed each other in practice and I'd say that so far that's carrying over. And it's helping us out a lot. We're all just pushing each other around in practice and we're competing for spots. Like we don't have set spots, we're competing so if you have a bad practice you could lose a spot," said junior tight end Jake Heemstra.
I asked senior Austin Fenech what game sticks out for him in his head the most from last season, he said it wasn't just one, but all of them that they could've improve on.
"I feel like every game really. Every game there's always so much room for improvement. And you really can't go wrong with just making one more tackle," said Fenech.
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Higher Ed Policy
Observations and discussion on the most current and compelling issues in higher education policy.
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Early College: A Strategy That Works
In conversation with Erika Giampietro, executive director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College.
In conversation with Erika Giampietro, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College
Erika, thanks for joining me at Higher Ed Policy here at Inside Higher Ed. Tell us a little about your current work role and the work that you do.
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I am the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Alliance for Early College. We are a coalition of community-based organizations, college success organizations, businesses, philanthropists, researchers, and higher education and K12 leaders sharing a bold goal: close one-quarter of the Massachusetts college success equity gap by race and income and benefit thousands of students beyond that through the growth of high quality Early College. Achieving this means both scale (going from ~4500 students in Early College today to 45,000 students in the next five years) and quality (impact must remain high even as we scale). The Alliance supports that goal in four ways: coalition-building, capacity building, policy, and innovation.
You come to Early College work from the K-12 world. How did you get here and how does that inform your perspective?
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I spent 7 years at the Boston Public Schools doing strategy and finance work. The best work we did happened not just when there was a good idea, but when the conditions were right for that good idea to take root. Those conditions – especially having mutual buy-in at the highest levels of system leadership and at the community level in schools and neighborhoods - need to be in place whether you’re working in K12 or higher education. These conditions exist for Early College. The Massachusetts legislature, governor, commissioners of K12 and higher education, and board chairs want to see Early College thrive, and so, too, do students, families, school and community leaders, and educators. Early College is reaching 39 programs across 50 high schools and 24 colleges in the Commonwealth. There is a great groundswell of support for Early College, and it is these conditions that will allow it to truly grow and successfully serve students.
The readership at Inside Higher Ed is largely from the higher ed sector. What do you want us to know about early college?
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I’d want readers to know that Early College’s greatest strength is also its most significant challenge - that is, bridging the K12 and higher education spaces. When we do it well, the benefits to students are unparalleled. Well-controlled matched peer methodology is showing us a 16 percentage point bump, consistent across race and income, in immediate college enrollment and college persistence for Early College students, and we know that these measures are highly predictive of ultimate degree completion. These are some of the largest effect sizes for any single initiative currently ongoing in MA. The outcomes are there, and at the same time, doing it well is challenging. It means fundamentally shifting mindsets about the responsibilities and commitments schools make to students and redefining success, and it means sharing collective vision and responsibility for meeting student needs across high school and college campuses. Once those mindsets are in place, it means changing systems and structures - aligning bell schedules across two large and complex institutions, sharing student progress data in both directions, and weaving together two separate student support systems. Early Colleges across the country, and now in Massachusetts, are overcoming these barriers in large numbers, and students are benefiting greatly.
This is a policy blog - what early college policies have been the most effective/impactful? Where do we need to do more in terms of policies?
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The state’s Early College designation was a critical first policy step in Massachusetts. The designation is earned by a high school and a college partnership and, upon approval of a student-centered, equity-focused Early College design, makes the program eligible for state funding. It is through this designation process that the State is able to define the key tenets of Early College - equitable access, robust student supports, academic pathways, career connections, and high quality, deep partnerships - and it’s a first step I’d recommend to any state adopting Early College. For policy priorities going forward, we will be advocating for formalizing that approach in state law and fortifying the funding model, improving automaticity of college credit transfer, evolving the designation to accommodate innovations that support quality and scale, and incorporating postsecondary success more formally and meaningfully into the K12 accountability system.
Closing remarks - it’s a challenging time in our society, can you leave our readers with some inspirational words with hope for a better future?
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I know for me at times like these, I find comfort in results and in commitments to consistently evaluate and strengthen programs for students. Our state leaders have committed to continuous evaluation of Early College and improvement, and the best, gold standard research across the country shows us that Early College can double Associate’s degree attainment and significantly boost four-year completion rates for students. At a time when college degrees matter more than ever for attaining family-supporting jobs and when college enrollment is down meaningfully, we have a strategy that we know works.
Mary Churchill is Professor of the Practice and Director of the Higher Education Administration program at Boston University where she also serves as Associate Dean. She is co-author of When Colleges Close: Leading in a Time of Crisis.
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GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe
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What Are the Writing Projects You “Need” this Academic Year?
When a writer is a Ph.D. student, on the job market, or on the tenure track, the question of which writing projects she needs to build into the year often has a rigid answer. Answers might look like: two chapters to finish the degree on time or a book proposal before third-year review.
When a writer is a PhD student, on the job market, or on the tenure track, the question of which writing projects she needs to build into the year often has a rigid answer. Answers might look like: two chapters to finish the degree on time or a book proposal before third-year review.
Or, worse, in response to systems characterized by unclear metrics, the answer might just be as much as humanly possible. I felt this way when going up for tenure. Whatever the bar was, I wanted to try to establish some air between it and me.
After tenure, the pressure to publish comes off, but not always in ways that writers find fruitful. For one thing, tenure often comes with increased responsibilities: chairing committees, taking on major departmental service, more graduate mentoring. For another, the time at which women achieve tenure often corresponds to increases in care responsibilities, whether for aging parents, partners who develop health conditions, or children. In my own case, I followed the relatively common pattern of having babies after tenure, which means that my time is less my own than ever before.
When I was on the job market and then pre-tenure, I developed good writing habits as a way to ease anxiety about job security. Many of these habits remain in place, but the old pattern of proposing a conference paper, using the paper to incubate an article, and then turning the articles into chapters and then a book has grown a little stale. Whether it’s burnout, a pandemic that’s got me feeling isolated from my scholarly community, or middle age, there’s a growing sense of “what is it all for?”
Talking with friends and colleagues, I don’t get the sense that I’m alone on this one. Without external, if scary, motivations to write and publish, the mid-career writer may find the need to tap into new sources of inspiration, perhaps now more than ever.
By inspiration, I don’t mean the heavens opening up and a passion for writing a peer-reviewed journal article striking while you’re out jogging through the neighborhood, causing you to scrawl an outline with a neighborhood child’s chalk that’s carelessly been left out overnight. Although, if that’s you, God Bless and please leave my girls’ chalk when you’re done.
Instead, I’ll offer here a few types of motivation that mid-career academic writers might use when selecting among writing projects for the coming year.
The quick win
It’s been a year. Frankly, it’s been several years. If you’ve been in a slump or feeling like you’ve really lost touch with your writing over the course of the pandemic, you are in good company. In addition to the stress, trauma, and increased workload many have experienced, academic writers have also lost many of the material supports for their writing. Archives were closed, conferences canceled, and so on. If you feel like you just need a little help getting back in the saddle or back on the horse (use your preferred equine metaphor), you might select the project that is closest to being done to focus on. This could look like an old seminar paper that received positive feedback, a revise and resubmit you could bang out, or a conference paper for which it wouldn’t be too difficult to build a frame. Work with a friend or mentor to create a concrete and time-bound plan for finishing and bang that puppy (pony?) out.
The social project
Lots of folks have been feeling isolated by the pandemic and writing can be a lonely task. Moreover, friends who have different family situations have grown distant and sometimes resentful of one another. For a great essay on this, see Anne Helen Peterson’s “How to Show Up for Your Friends without Kids—and How to Show Up for Kids and Their Parents.” If there’s no writing project that has you super jazzed, what about reaching out to an academic friend you’d like to be connecting with on a more regular basis and seeing if there’s something the two of you might collaborate on? Even if you’re not in a position to try this strategy right now, it might be helpful to set up either a regular or Zoom writing date to blend the need for social connection with your writing practice.
The new audience
If you only write for academic audiences, you might find it enlivening to write public-facing pieces about your research area or research-adjacent areas. If you want a low barrier to entry, you could try a blog. If you would like social accountability, you could blog with your students this year. If you need the greater feeling of accomplishment that comes with traditional publication, you might consider brainstorming what’s topical about your research and pitching to news outlets or magazines that publish researched essays. Having to write in a new way and convince editors and lay audiences about what’s cool about your research topic might remind you of its import. What’s the most poignant or funny anecdote from your research of late?
The learning goal
This is where I’ve landed. The next book I’m writing won’t be surprising to people who know me. I’m continuing to do archival research on a figure who has been at the center of my conference presentations and article publishing over the last several years. However, rather than writing another thesis-forward book, I’m working on a biography. This is new ground and it’s a little scary. To tackle the thing, I’m returning to student mode. I’ve assigned myself some model biographies to read and I’ll be auditing a class in my campus’s journalism school this fall. Being a novice and taking my status as a learner seriously is bringing a different kind of pleasure to this next project.
Whichever strategy you try, I hope you’ll find the writing you need for the year.
Katherine Fusco is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada at Reno. She also works as a coach, helping faculty connect to values and meaningful goals at midcareer. You can learn more about her at KatherineFusco.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche has been laid to rest at a storied Los Angeles cemetery alongside many Hollywood luminaries, her family said Tuesday.
Heche was cremated and her ashes were placed in a mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery nearly two weeks after she was declared dead at a hospital from injuries suffered in a fiery car crash.
In a statement, Heche's son Homer Laffoon said he and her other son Atlas Tupper "are convinced our Mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it's beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers."
The cemetery has in recent years become a cultural hub for film screenings, musical performances and festivals.
Laffoon went to see the band My Morning Jacket there after his mother's death, with tickets bought before she died. He loved the vibrancy of the location, and took it as a sign that her grave should be there.
"Hollywood Forever is a living place," Laffoon's statement said.
A small private memorial will be held once Heche's headstone is etched.
"She was our Mom, but the kindness and the outpouring of the past few days reminded us that she also belongs to her fans, to the entertainment community, and now, to the ages," the statement said.
Founded in 1899 and located near the Paramount Pictures lot, the cemetery is home to the graves and tombs of actors including Judy Garland and Douglas Fairbanks, and of musicians including Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone.
Heche's spot in the mausoleum in the cemetery's Garden of Legends is near that of Mickey Rooney, and faces a lake where Burt Reynolds' remains were recently relocated.
Heche, 53, was among the biggest film stars of the late 1990s, starring opposite actors including Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, and had worked consistently in movies and television for more than three decades. But personal turmoil, which she described in a memoir and interviews, often followed her.
On Aug. 5, she drove a car at a high rate of speed over a curb and smashed into a West Los Angeles home. Both the car and the home burst into flames. She was declared brain dead on Aug. 11, and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs could be donated.
Her death was ruled an accident, and the cause was inhalation injuries and burns, according to the Los Angeles County coroner.
___
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter @andyjamesdalton | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/anne-heche-laid-to-rest-at-historic-hollywood-cemetery | 2022-08-24T03:49:54Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/anne-heche-laid-to-rest-at-historic-hollywood-cemetery | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who twice led fights to impeach former President Donald Trump, has defeated U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a Democratic primary after a court forced the two veteran lawmakers into the same New York City congressional district.
Nadler's victory ends a 30-year run in Congress for Maloney, who battled to get government aid for people sickened by clouds of toxic soot after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The unusual fight between incumbents who are typically allies was the result of a redistricting process that lumped Nadler's home base on the west side of Manhattan together with Maloney's on the east side.
Neither was willing to run in another part of the city.
Nadler also defeated Suraj Patel, a 38-year-old lawyer and lecturer at New York University who has now failed to advance out of a Democratic congressional primary in three straight tries.
Nadler, 75, was first elected to Congress in 1992. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, he led both impeachments of Trump. Nadler was buoyed in the last weeks of the campaign by endorsements from The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Maloney, 76, also first elected in 1992, is the first woman to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee. She is known for her longtime advocacy for Sept. 11 first responders seeking compensation for diseases they attribute to contamination from the destruction of the World Trade Center. She wore a firefighter's jacket on Capitol Hill and at the 2019 Met Gala.
Few policy differences between Nadler, Maloney and Patel emerged during the primary campaign.
All support abortion rights, the Green New Deal and tighter restrictions on gun ownership. Patel argued that Nadler's and Maloney's generation failed to achieve Democratic goals like codifying Roe v. Wade and should cede to new blood.
Nadler and Maloney countered that their seniority in Congress brings clout that benefits New Yorkers.
Friends for many years, the two Democrats lamented having to run against each other — something that only happened after a court redrew the boundaries of the state's congressional districts after concluding the legislature botched the process.
"I didn't want to run against my good friend, Jerry Nadler," Maloney said at a recent debate. "We have been friends and allies for years. Unfortunately, we were drawn into the same district."
Still, on the campaign trail Maloney said that as a woman, she would fight harder to protect abortion rights than Nadler.
Asked at a debate how his record differed from that of Maloney, Nadler cited his votes against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, and in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. Maloney, also elected to Congress in 1992, voted the other way on all three.
Maloney also came under fire from her opponents for her past positions on vaccines, including in 2006 when she introduced legislation directing the federal government to study the debunked theory that vaccines can cause autism. Maloney insisted that she supports vaccines and regretted having ever questioned vaccine safety.
The primary winner in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will face Republican Michael Zumbluskas in the November general election. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nadler-defeats-maloney-in-democratic-primary-battle-of-top-house-democrats | 2022-08-24T03:50:06Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/nadler-defeats-maloney-in-democratic-primary-battle-of-top-house-democrats | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Sophia Daly was 13, the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing and she was looking for a hobby to pass the time. So she took out the old sewing machine left to her by her late grandmother, found two blue pillowcases under her bed and got to work.
"I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and learned how to sew," Daly said. "I call it my Cinderella dress because it’s light blue."
Daly describes her design style as historical wear. She’s made dresses that's designs date back to the 1500s.
"You see clothes now and they are really pretty, but I don’t know, I want more," she said. "I want the pizzazz, I want the ruffles and the fabric."
Daly’s mother, Gina, remembers the day they were taking a drive through the neighborhood when her daughter found inspiration.
“She found a couch on the side of the road that they were getting rid of and she was like, 'Mom I want fabric,'" Gina Daly said.
While 2020 was a difficult year for everyone, Gina Daly said her daughter found joy in designing and sewing.
“She will tell you that it was the best year of her life,” she said. “She loved the year 2020 ... it showed her a talent that she plans to turn into her career, designing, with an emphasis on historical fashion.”
When she was going into the eighth grade, Daly elected to learn virtually, sewing for hours every day after her studies.
Gina Daly said she believes her child is a “teen prodigy" in costume and fashion design.
Two years after she first picked up those blue pillowcases — and more than 14 dresses later, Daly is hosting a runway fashion show to raise money for The Dragonfly Foundation, a local nonprofit that brings joy and support to families who are living through childhood cancer.
“I have always told my daughter to use her talent for good and I love that at 15 she’s already starting,” Gina Daly said.
Daly wants to attend Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris.
Anyone who wishes to donate to The Dragon Fly Foundation in Daly's name can text 23FFTC15 to 71777.
This story was originally published by WCPO in Cincinnati, Ohio. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/teen-puts-sewing-talents-to-good-use-with-fundraiser-for-nonprofit | 2022-08-24T03:50:18Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/teen-puts-sewing-talents-to-good-use-with-fundraiser-for-nonprofit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAFAYETTE (AP)— ASAP, the on-demand delivery brand for Waitr Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: WTRH), has announced a new partnership with FoodBoss, an industry leading online food delivery search engine. The agreement immediately boosts ASAP’s accessibility to new restaurant brands, as well as its ability to reach guests.
“This alliance with FoodBoss helps us expand into new markets more efficiently than ever before as we grow our newly branded ASAP delivery platform,” said Carl Grimstad, CEO and Chairman of the Board of ASAP, Inc.
This is the first major partnership for ASAP since its official rebranding to a “deliver anything ASAP” business model. The new relationship with FoodBoss is the latest part of a multifaceted company strategy to prominently enhance the ASAP brand from a national perspective.
FoodBoss is the leading online food ordering search engine that allows consumers to see every online food delivery and/or pickup option for any restaurant.
Users are able to pick the ideal delivery partner and food vendor combination and then complete the order through that partner’s app, mobile, or desktop-based site. It’s a seamless and free process that takes a few seconds and enables customers to save money on fees and/or reduce their delivery waiting times.
“ASAP’s contemporary approach to food delivery is the ideal category of company that Foodboss is excited to welcome into our family of partners,” said Michael DiBenedetto, co-founder, and CEO of FoodBoss. “We offer strong value propositions for our partners by delivering steady streams of qualified customers.” | https://www.katc.com/news/around-acadiana/asap-announces-new-partnership-with-foodboss | 2022-08-24T03:53:03Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/around-acadiana/asap-announces-new-partnership-with-foodboss | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche has been laid to rest at a storied Los Angeles cemetery alongside many Hollywood luminaries, her family said Tuesday.
Heche was cremated and her ashes were placed in a mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery nearly two weeks after she was declared dead at a hospital from injuries suffered in a fiery car crash.
In a statement, Heche's son Homer Laffoon said he and her other son Atlas Tupper "are convinced our Mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it's beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers."
The cemetery has in recent years become a cultural hub for film screenings, musical performances and festivals.
Laffoon went to see the band My Morning Jacket there after his mother's death, with tickets bought before she died. He loved the vibrancy of the location, and took it as a sign that her grave should be there.
"Hollywood Forever is a living place," Laffoon's statement said.
A small private memorial will be held once Heche's headstone is etched.
"She was our Mom, but the kindness and the outpouring of the past few days reminded us that she also belongs to her fans, to the entertainment community, and now, to the ages," the statement said.
Founded in 1899 and located near the Paramount Pictures lot, the cemetery is home to the graves and tombs of actors including Judy Garland and Douglas Fairbanks, and of musicians including Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone.
Heche's spot in the mausoleum in the cemetery's Garden of Legends is near that of Mickey Rooney, and faces a lake where Burt Reynolds' remains were recently relocated.
Heche, 53, was among the biggest film stars of the late 1990s, starring opposite actors including Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, and had worked consistently in movies and television for more than three decades. But personal turmoil, which she described in a memoir and interviews, often followed her.
On Aug. 5, she drove a car at a high rate of speed over a curb and smashed into a West Los Angeles home. Both the car and the home burst into flames. She was declared brain dead on Aug. 11, and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs could be donated.
Her death was ruled an accident, and the cause was inhalation injuries and burns, according to the Los Angeles County coroner.
___
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter @andyjamesdalton | https://www.katc.com/news/national/anne-heche-laid-to-rest-at-historic-hollywood-cemetery | 2022-08-24T03:53:09Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/anne-heche-laid-to-rest-at-historic-hollywood-cemetery | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who twice led fights to impeach former President Donald Trump, has defeated U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a Democratic primary after a court forced the two veteran lawmakers into the same New York City congressional district.
Nadler's victory ends a 30-year run in Congress for Maloney, who battled to get government aid for people sickened by clouds of toxic soot after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The unusual fight between incumbents who are typically allies was the result of a redistricting process that lumped Nadler's home base on the west side of Manhattan together with Maloney's on the east side.
Neither was willing to run in another part of the city.
Nadler also defeated Suraj Patel, a 38-year-old lawyer and lecturer at New York University who has now failed to advance out of a Democratic congressional primary in three straight tries.
Nadler, 75, was first elected to Congress in 1992. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, he led both impeachments of Trump. Nadler was buoyed in the last weeks of the campaign by endorsements from The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Maloney, 76, also first elected in 1992, is the first woman to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee. She is known for her longtime advocacy for Sept. 11 first responders seeking compensation for diseases they attribute to contamination from the destruction of the World Trade Center. She wore a firefighter's jacket on Capitol Hill and at the 2019 Met Gala.
Few policy differences between Nadler, Maloney and Patel emerged during the primary campaign.
All support abortion rights, the Green New Deal and tighter restrictions on gun ownership. Patel argued that Nadler's and Maloney's generation failed to achieve Democratic goals like codifying Roe v. Wade and should cede to new blood.
Nadler and Maloney countered that their seniority in Congress brings clout that benefits New Yorkers.
Friends for many years, the two Democrats lamented having to run against each other — something that only happened after a court redrew the boundaries of the state's congressional districts after concluding the legislature botched the process.
"I didn't want to run against my good friend, Jerry Nadler," Maloney said at a recent debate. "We have been friends and allies for years. Unfortunately, we were drawn into the same district."
Still, on the campaign trail Maloney said that as a woman, she would fight harder to protect abortion rights than Nadler.
Asked at a debate how his record differed from that of Maloney, Nadler cited his votes against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, and in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. Maloney, also elected to Congress in 1992, voted the other way on all three.
Maloney also came under fire from her opponents for her past positions on vaccines, including in 2006 when she introduced legislation directing the federal government to study the debunked theory that vaccines can cause autism. Maloney insisted that she supports vaccines and regretted having ever questioned vaccine safety.
The primary winner in the overwhelmingly Democratic district will face Republican Michael Zumbluskas in the November general election. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/nadler-defeats-maloney-in-democratic-primary-battle-of-top-house-democrats | 2022-08-24T03:53:15Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/nadler-defeats-maloney-in-democratic-primary-battle-of-top-house-democrats | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Deborah Gaudet spent 26 years living out her passion as a Virginia Beach, Va firefighter, before retiring in 2021.
“We became a huge family,” she said.
But in 2011, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“It was terrifying. Naturally, not something I was expecting at all,” Gaudet said. “It was like, ‘Oh no, not me.’ And, turned out it was me.”
She found out from her doctor her diagnosis stemmed from her time on the front lines. She said that the update gave her relief.
Eventually, she decided to share her story and was determined to help others in uniform.
“I want these guys to know what this is like, and I don't want them to have to go through it too,” Gaudet said.
According to the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN), a nonprofit providing help and mentoring to firefighters and their families, cancer is the most dangerous threat to firefighters' health and safety today.
FCSN officials also stated that firefighters have a nine percent higher risk of being diagnosed and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from cancer when compared with the general U.S. population.
READ: International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Fire Fighter Cancer Awareness and Prevention
Also, the group cites research from the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOHS), which shows firefighters are at one and a half times greater risk of getting multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and at least two times greater risk of getting mesothelioma and testicular cancer.
“We really have no idea what is burning inside that building,” said Kevin Ferrara, a volunteer firefighter and retired Air Force firefighter who served at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton Roads.
“It's the byproducts of combustion,” VBFD Deputy Chief of Fire Administration Ken Pravetz said. “It's the dirty soot [and] the dirty gear.”
“That was their badge of courage,” Ferrara added. “If you had dirty gear, if you had a melted fire shield, that showed you were courageous. That mentality, fortunately, we're getting that out of the fire service today.”
Ferrara also points to items that could be in structures when crews respond to calls.
“You look through your house, you have various fabrics, your stain-resistant carpeting, your furniture, even some of your clothing, contains these carcinogens,” he said. As they are consumed by a fire, they produce soot. They produce ash. Those products of combustion are absorbed onto the turnout gear, through the firefighters' skin.”
Virginia law also lists 10 different cancers presumed to be occupational diseases linked to firefighters.
“They know that we're exposed to carcinogens enough that, chances are pretty good that we may suffer from one of what they call the presumptive cancers,” Gaudet said.
“Our retirees are the group I really worry about right now,” Pravetz said. “Our recent retirees who fought fires 20 years ago, they didn't have the same turnout gear. They wore the dirty gear.”
VBFD officials said that their department has been making investments to protect members, including providing firefighters a second set of gear and wipes to clean their skin after a fire.
It's also not just about the gear they wear. Virginia Beach firefighters said they’re also putting in a strategy called "Clean Cab Technology." This will include replacing seats like this in all of their trucks with ones that are easily removable and can be cleaned after responding to a call.”
“I think one of the biggest things we've had is a culture change here in the department that I've seen,” Norman Williams, VBFD Battalion Chief of Health and Safety said. “Being clean, changing your gear, cleaning yourself while you're still at the fire.”
“I'm glad to hear that Virginia Beach is doing the right thing,” Ferrara added.
As for Gaudet, she has been cancer free since 2014.
She hopes to see her department continue to carry out strategies to protect those who protect us.
“Everything we're trying to do to save a life, we're trying to do it,” Pravetz said.
Ferrara also recommends if you're a firefighter, whether active or retired, always be proactive about your health. This includes maintaining relationships with your doctors, especially a dermatologist.
If you’re an active firefighter, Ferrara also recommends always making sure to shower and wash your personal items after every fire.
This story was originally published by WTKR in Virginia Beach, Virginia. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/rates-of-cancer-diagnosis-among-firefighters-becomes-another-threat | 2022-08-24T03:53:21Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/rates-of-cancer-diagnosis-among-firefighters-becomes-another-threat | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When Sophia Daly was 13, the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing and she was looking for a hobby to pass the time. So she took out the old sewing machine left to her by her late grandmother, found two blue pillowcases under her bed and got to work.
"I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and learned how to sew," Daly said. "I call it my Cinderella dress because it’s light blue."
Daly describes her design style as historical wear. She’s made dresses that's designs date back to the 1500s.
"You see clothes now and they are really pretty, but I don’t know, I want more," she said. "I want the pizzazz, I want the ruffles and the fabric."
Daly’s mother, Gina, remembers the day they were taking a drive through the neighborhood when her daughter found inspiration.
“She found a couch on the side of the road that they were getting rid of and she was like, 'Mom I want fabric,'" Gina Daly said.
While 2020 was a difficult year for everyone, Gina Daly said her daughter found joy in designing and sewing.
“She will tell you that it was the best year of her life,” she said. “She loved the year 2020 ... it showed her a talent that she plans to turn into her career, designing, with an emphasis on historical fashion.”
When she was going into the eighth grade, Daly elected to learn virtually, sewing for hours every day after her studies.
Gina Daly said she believes her child is a “teen prodigy" in costume and fashion design.
Two years after she first picked up those blue pillowcases — and more than 14 dresses later, Daly is hosting a runway fashion show to raise money for The Dragonfly Foundation, a local nonprofit that brings joy and support to families who are living through childhood cancer.
“I have always told my daughter to use her talent for good and I love that at 15 she’s already starting,” Gina Daly said.
Daly wants to attend Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris.
Anyone who wishes to donate to The Dragon Fly Foundation in Daly's name can text 23FFTC15 to 71777.
This story was originally published by WCPO in Cincinnati, Ohio. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/teen-puts-sewing-talents-to-good-use-with-fundraiser-for-nonprofit | 2022-08-24T03:53:27Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/teen-puts-sewing-talents-to-good-use-with-fundraiser-for-nonprofit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dramatic video was captured of the moment when a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Italy over nine miles from the shore.
The incident was recorded on video by the Italian Coast Guard off the coast of Catanzaro in southern Italy.
VIDEO: A luxury yacht sinks some 15 km off the coast of Catanzaro, in southern Italy. All four passengers and five crew members were rescued from the 40-metre vessel, which was heading from Gallipoli to Milazzo when it sank. pic.twitter.com/k0c5ZvuFDN
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 23, 2022
There were four passengers along with five crew members on the boat. All were able to be rescued from the nearly 131-foot superyacht in the Mediterranean Sea.
The passengers were headed from Gallipoli in southern Italy to Milazzo, a town located on the southern Italian island of Sicily. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/video-shows-131-foot-luxury-yacht-sinking-into-sea-off-italian-coast | 2022-08-24T03:53:39Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/video-shows-131-foot-luxury-yacht-sinking-into-sea-off-italian-coast | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VALCOURT, QC, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOOO) reports that, following the recent cyberattack, information on certain employees and suppliers accessed by an unauthorized third party has been leaked on the dark web.
While the investigation is still ongoing, the evidence collected so far allows BRP to believe that the impact of this incident from a data privacy perspective should be limited, as mentioned in the press release issued on August 15, 2022.
BRP confirms that it has already contacted the very few employees who may have been impacted by the incident. The appropriate resources have been made available to them, including credit monitoring services. Based on the current status of its investigation, BRP also believes that the compromised information relating to certain of its suppliers is limited in quantity and sensitivity, and is in the process of contacting them.
At this time, the Company has no evidence that its clients' personal information would have been affected by the attack. Should the circumstances change, BRP would directly contact individuals or corporations impacted.
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Becky Kerr's family lobbies against parole for her killer 42 years after murder
Melissa Kerr-Binius said the murder of her mother 42 years ago had been a haunting thought almost every day for decades.
More recently she's been trying to put that ruin behind her.
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Kerr-Binius said the memory of her mother, Rebecca Kerr, a 1968 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, dying in a parking lot at what was then Kayo, a gas station in Perry Township, remains difficult to think about. It's certainly a location she never wants to ever revisit. The station was located near Perry Drive SW and Southway Street SW.
Kerr-Binius, now 50, was there on that snowy day in 1980 and witnessed her mom's murder.
"I no longer cry every day. There was a time when I did," she said. "It's been getting better."
Lincoln Mabry now 81 and up for parole
On Feb. 15, 1980, Rebecca "Becky" Kerr was a 29-year-old mother who was shot seven times and killed by her ex-boyfriend, Lincoln Mabry Jr. Mabry, 81, now is up for a parole hearing in September. Kerr-Binius and her family are steadfast on his release being denied.
"He's 81 years old. Let him die (in prison)," Kerr-Binius said while fighting back tears during a recent phone interview.
Becky Kerr and then 8-year-old daughter Melissa were both abducted by Mabry. When Becky Kerr tried to run for help at a gas station, he emptied the gun into her, stood over her, reloading and emptying the weapon again. Mabry then fled.
Kerr-Binius said she was sled riding at her babysitter's house that wintry day when Mabry ran down a hill toward her while her mother was also approaching. That's where the events of the day began.
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Looking back, Kerr-Binius said, she doesn't recall clear memories of her mother, mainly due to the trauma of that day. However, she does remember certain instances involving Becky.
"My mom used to cook cream-chipped beef, and it was horrible," Kerr-Binius said with a laugh. "I know (my mother) worked really hard and tried to make a good life for us."
Becky Kerr was the first woman inspector for the Stark County Housing Authority, according to Kerr-Binius.
"I think she was proud of that," she said. "She was loving and caring. I was robbed of that."
Kerr-Binius also attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School, graduating in 1989.
Brothers recall beloved sister, 'Becky'
Joe Kerr often looks back and sees his older sister, Becky, as a loving mother, sibling and individual.
Her life was taken away far too soon, Kerr said.
"(Mabry) killed my sister on my birthday. So I think about (Becky) quite a bit," he said. "She was a good friend to people, a good mother and just a good person."
The Kerr family has made it their mission to ensure Mabry remains behind bars for the remainder of his life. They are requesting that people sign a petition at blockparole.com to help prohibit his release.
He's presently behind bars at the London Correctional Institution in London, Ohio.
Family members are working to gather support to keep Mabry behind bars. Signatures will be sent to the Ohio Parole Board, where Mabry has a hearing scheduled Sept. 1.
"When he was convicted, we thought life (in prison) meant life," Joe Kerr said. "We're hoping there will be so many people out there who (sign the petition and) don't want him on the streets."
Added Mark Kerr, the elder of the seven Kerr siblings, "We're focused on keeping (Mabry) in prison."
Convicted killer parole hearing in September
The Ohio Parole Board is scheduled to review Mabry's case. Once all information is considered, the board will decide whether to schedule a full board hearing or to deny parole outright.
According to an article published in May 1980 in The Canton Repository, Mabry was sentenced to a life term for aggravated murder. He was also sentenced three-to-10 years for abduction.
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'They put money before human life.' Family seeks safety changes at TimkenSteel
PERRY TWP. ‒ Patrick Ferrall couldn't bring himself to put on a baseball or football game yesterday. His nephew loved to watch sports with his three young sons, but the father will never be able to do that again.
Joseph Ferrall, 34, of Alliance, died Friday from injuries suffered in a July 26 explosion at the TimkenSteel Faircrest plant. He and two other workers were injured when a furnace exploded in the plant's shop.
He had been in critical condition at Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center's Burn Unit since the explosion.
Last week, the family was seeking a hospital with specialized care to help save Ferrall, who was severely burned. Today, they are planning a funeral and wondering how they will go on without him.
Family and friends have been protesting outside the Faircrest plant since he died on Friday. They want to make sure that no other family has to face life without a loved one.
'Your company will recover, my family never will.'
Armed with signs and wearing gray T-shirts with a red muscular arm and "Team Joey" written in red, the family was steadfast in their mission.
"(TimkenSteel) destroyed our family, who's next?" was scrawled in red on a car that sat near the group.
"Your company will recover, my family never will," another sign said.
Others reminded the company that three young boys are now fatherless and their mother a widow at 34.
Patrick Ferrall said his nephew's wife, Amber, and his sons Tucker, 8, Colton, 6, and Jaxxon, 3, were his life. Everything he did was for them.
"He was a great father, a great husband and a great nephew," he said with tears in his eyes.
Joseph and Amber Ferrall had a great love story
Patrick Ferrall said his nephew and Amber had a great love story, one that should have had them growing old together.
"It's a love story you just don't see anymore," he said. "They would have been the people with the 75th anniversary (in the paper) and everyone would ask how it worked."
Wendy Saunders, Ferrall's mother-in-law, said her daughter and Ferrall met while playing baseball when they were 8 years old. Her son-in-law knew back then that Amber would one day be his wife.
"He told his grandmother, 'You see that girl right there? I am going to marry that girl,'" she recalled.
Ferrall, a 2006 Marlington graduate, was the "glue of the family," Saunders said. "He kept everyone together."
As the oldest of five, his younger siblings looked up to him, she added.
Explosion:One worker hospitalized, two treated and released
'They put money before human life.'
Nothing will bring his nephew back, but Patrick Ferrall hopes the family can use his nephew's death to bring real, sustainable change to the safety practices at the Faircrest plant.
"They are not a safety-oriented company," Saunders said. "They put money before human life."
Company executives recently told stock analysts the incident still is being investigated and equipment is being repaired and melt shop operations have been stalled by the investigation and repairs. Mike Williams, president and chief executive officer, said he doesn't expect the accident to have a significant impact on financial results for the rest of the year.
TimkenSteel officials were not available Monday morning to comment about the protest.
The company had issued a statement Saturday following Ferrall's death that said: "Our deepest sympathies go out to his family, friends and coworkers. We are supporting our employees with counseling resources. At this time, we are continuing to investigate the cause of the incident."
TimkenSteel:July accident at Faircrest steel plant stalling TimkenSteel production
'All they could hear on their radios was 'Run!''
Megan King was among the protesters. Her husband, Justin, works at the facility. Her husband and Ferrall were best friends.
Her husband, who is on leave from the company, can't bring himself to head back into the plant.
Justin King was about 50 yards from the furnace when it exploded, his wife said.
"Everything just went black. All they could hear on their radios was 'Run!" she said. "They thought steel was coming down. He and his partner held each other and ran out of the building."
He saw his friend being helped out of the building. Ferrall told his friend to call his wife.
Saunders said it was two hours after the accident when TimkenSteel officials contacted Amber Ferrall to tell her that her husband had been in an accident, but thanks to King she was already by her husband's side as they prepared to take him by helicopter to Cleveland Metro Hospital.
Ferrall, who spent seven years with the company most of it at the Harrison plant, didn't want to work at the Faircrest plant, family said. After being laid off last year, he was reassigned to Faircrest early this year when he was called back to work.
"He didn't want to work here," Saunders said. "He said it was dangerous. I think he was truly scared and he had plans of leaving."
He was in the process of seeking a new job, his mother-in-law said.
"My husband remembers sitting on the front porch of (Joseph and Amber's) house when he got the call from (TimkenSteel)," King said. "They talked about the dangers but he thought it was safe (back then)."
The pay was good and the insurance and pension benefits were better than his job as an assistant manager at Walmart, King added.
Timken death:TimkenSteel employee dies following accident at company's Gambrinus finishing facility
'They don't make a lot of men like Joe.'
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.
In June, the federal agency fined TimkenSteel $315,000 because of a fatality in December at the Gambrinus Steel Mill, and — citing past accidents ― placed the company in OSHA's serious violator program.
Patrick Ferrall said after the December death, changes were made but didn't last.
"They do this and that (to improve safety) and two weeks later it's the same old thing," he said.
Saunders, who spent days with her daughter at Ferrall's bedside, is asking for people to pray that her daughter and grandsons find the strength to go own without their husband and father.
"Tucker asked me who was going to work and take care of them now," she said as tears ran down her cheeks. The middle son, Colton, she belives is suffering from anxiety while hiding his pain and tears.
"We prayed for a miracle, but it was just too late," Saunders added.
King knew they were looking for a miracle but she reminded her friends that Ferrall was the miracle.
"They don't make a lot of men like Joe," she said.
Ferrall's family and friends will continue to protest until changes are made, King added. They plan to protest outside the TimkenSteel corporate offices on Tuesday.
"I have to bury my best friend," King added. "I don't want to have to bury my husband."
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Funeral for Joseph Ferrall
Calling hours will be held for Joseph Ferrall, 34, of Alliance, from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Cassidy-Turkle-Christian Funeral Home, 75 S. Union Ave., Alliance, and from 10 a.m. to noon Friday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 3295 S. Union Ave., Alliance, followed by the funeral at noon and interment at Marlboro Cemetery.
A GoFundMe account has been set up for Ferrall's family. As of Monday morning, more than $107,000 had been raised. | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/22/family-of-joseph-ferrall-changes-needed-at-timkensteel-plant/65413599007/ | 2022-08-24T03:57:33Z | eonline.com | treatment | https://www.indeonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/22/family-of-joseph-ferrall-changes-needed-at-timkensteel-plant/65413599007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UNITED STATES — Airline company aha! Airlines has filed for bankruptcy, canceling all flights. The company filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code on August 22 due to a “combination of market and economic conditions.”
Customers with tickets for aha! flights after August 23 should contact their card company for a refund.
aha! Airlines partner ExpressJet filed for bankruptcy the same day. Neither company can help arrange other travel plans, but options are available in case refunds aren’t immediately granted.
The airline previously flew out of the Tri-Cities Airport, offering flights to Reno-Tahoe and a Wine Flies Free program. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/aha-airlines-files-for-bankruptcy-ends-all-flights/article_ea1fed6a-2340-11ed-bbd8-939d1b98f83d.html | 2022-08-24T03:57:33Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/aha-airlines-files-for-bankruptcy-ends-all-flights/article_ea1fed6a-2340-11ed-bbd8-939d1b98f83d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What's new at the Mu? Brown-bag lunch highlights West Massillon
A group of Massillonians who grew up on the city's west side during the mid-1900s will speak Tuesday at MassMu’s August Brown Bag Lunch.
Panelists will be Rudy Turkal, Massillon historian and memorabilia collector, who is proud of the ethnic heritage fostered in Columbia Heights; Mel Herncane, who remembers every name and address on his paper route; attorney Tom Ferrero, whose family owned the iconic Venice Restaurant; and Fred DeGordon, who recalls every block from Fifth to 15th Streets SW, from regularly riding the West Park bus with his Uncle Tiny.
Highlights
The program will complement the museum’s second-floor local history gallery exhibit, which includes the 1831 plat of West Massillon and the 1811 deed signed by President James Madison marking the founding of Slussertown, near current-day 27th Street and Lincoln Way West.
Familiar west side images in the gallery include Finefrock’s Furniture; Bordner’s Grocery; Watts Confectionery; Harvey, Horace Mann and Lorin Andrews schools; and the First Reformed Church that faced directly downtown at “the point” at Lincoln Way West and Main Street.
One photograph records the 1966 reopening of the Tremont Viaduct. A panel honors Massillon’s 19 Vietnam casualties including “The Three Buddies,” who grew up together on the west side, enlisted and served together, and perished together in a helicopter crash. Their service is commemorated on the Tremont bridge, now rededicated as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Viaduct.
Among a number of local adult bands in the early 1900s, the West Brookfield Citizens Band was one of the favorites. A group photograph is displayed near a 1909 band uniform jacket with gold braid.
Why attend?
Admission to Brown Bag Lunch is free and no reservations are required. Guests may bring their own lunches; purchase sandwiches, salad and smoothies at Greatness Cafe in the Museum lobby; or simply enjoy complimentary cookies and coffee.
Admission to Brown Bag Lunch is free and no reservations are required. Guests may bring their own lunches; purchase sandwiches, salad, and smoothies at Greatness Cafe in the Museum lobby; or simply enjoy complimentary cookies and coffee.
Details
What − MassMu Brown Bag Lunch Program, “Growing up on the West Side.”
When − 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. Aug. 23.
Where − Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way East, downtown Massillon.
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TRI-CITIES, Wash. -
Natural disasters have been increasing over the past fifty years according to the world meteorology organization. Economic losses have increased sevenfold from the 1970s to the 2010s - destroying homes, and people's livelihoods.
As fires start to grow bigger and happen more frequently firefighters have a greater need for quick access to information.
Technologies like drones and artificial intelligence (AI) sound like a science fiction novel's solution to natural disasters.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) uses a combination of images from satellites and aircraft to make maps.
PNNL Data Scientist, Andre Coleman, said,"...the reason we're doing that is to help provide a more frequent analysis of what's going on with a fire..."
Firefighters have used planes for years and in the past decade have started sending drones up to get a view of fires in the air.
Satellite images fill the gaps when weather keeps aircraft and drones from lifting off according to Coleman. The AI can use satellite imagery to peer through the smoke and see the fire's shape more clearly.
Coleman said the system can also help prepare the power grid during natural disasters, giving data to utilities to show where the fire is at and where it's going.
The team has been working on integrating social media images into the AI system in the past year.
Coleman said the team is taking into account that images from social media may not always be accurate but could provide data that aerial images can't. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ai-using-satellite-and-social-media-to-map-fires/article_d30847a0-2348-11ed-ab7a-f3eda02eb533.html | 2022-08-24T03:57:39Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ai-using-satellite-and-social-media-to-map-fires/article_d30847a0-2348-11ed-ab7a-f3eda02eb533.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For months, a group of conservative Christians have inundated the staff and board of a public library in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, with complaints about books they didn’t want to see on the shelves.
Their list of more than 400 titles predominantly focuses on young adult books with LGBTQ characters, scenes describing sexual activity or invoking the occult.
The only problem: None of the books are in the library’s collection.
Still, the activists in this town of 2,500 people wanted the books pre-emptively banned. They fumed that the library planned to join the American Library Association, a nonprofit trade organization known for fighting censorship that local activists falsely accused of “promoting pedophilia.” They started a campaign to recall four of the five library trustees over a policy against restricting access to controversial books, putting up signs around town that read: “Our Mission is to protect children from explicit materials and grooming.”
The fervor has become so heated that the library’s director is quitting after just nine months, citing a barrage of harassment that she said made it impossible to do her job. Kimber Glidden, 51, a former bank manager turned librarian, said the stress became so bad that she developed a tic that makes her thumb quiver uncontrollably.
In Glidden’s Aug. 16 resignation announcement on Facebook, she stated that “nothing in my background could have prepared me for the political atmosphere of extremism, militant Christian fundamentalism, intimidation tactics, and threatening behavior currently being employed in the community.”
“They don’t know what comes next. They just want to burn it down, and they’re doing a good job,” Glidden told NBC News.
Donna Capurso and Adrienne Norris, two of the trustees’ recall organizers, did not respond to requests for comment.
“We want a strongly written policy that will not allow the library to order materials with sex acts,” the group stated on Facebook this month, adding that the American Library Association “has brainwashed our libraries” into believing this is a First Amendment issue.
The fight in Bonners Ferry over what books are allowed in the Boundary County Public Library echoes battles playing out at libraries across the country. Conflicts over literature that discuss sexuality and contain explicit passages have bled from school board meetings into library board meetings, as conservative and far-right activists call for bans on books, Pride Month displays and membership to the American Library Association.
In August, a librarian in Louisiana was nearly fired after she spoke out against censorship. Local officials in a Texas town suggested that the public library could be evicted if it didn’t reconsider complaints about LGBTQ-themed books in its collection. And a group of conservative residents in a Michigan town successfully campaigned to deny funding to the local library after its board said it would not ban books, an effort that far-right activists on Facebook and Telegram have held up as inspiration.
According to the American Library Association, attempts to censor materials in libraries and schools nationwide increased last year to 729 — more than double the typical amount of book challenges in previous years, targeting 1,597 books. More than a third of the censorship attempts in 2021 occurred at public libraries, prompting some libraries to ban Black History Month and Pride displays, while others closed due to harassment of LGBTQ employees.
“It’s wrong when one parent can dictate what information is available to an entire community, which may have the effect of denying the diversity and the variety of identities that are already living in that community,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, who oversees the association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom.
‘Under God’s standards’
In Bonners Ferry, where about 78% of voters supported former President Donald Trump in 2020, the library has been a jewel in the community. The Library Journal, a trade publication, named it the Best Small Library in America in 2017, celebrating its 3D printer, laser engraver and milling machine, as well as computer and smartphone tutoring for the elderly, and free virtual classes with NASA scientists.
The conflict over controversial materials started in March, when a handful of locals approached library officials with a list of books from the right-wing website Growing Freedom for Idaho that they wanted to see removed from the shelves. Library officials responded that they did not have any of those books and didn’t plan to stock them anytime soon.
Lee Colson, one of the Boundary County library trustees, said he thought informing them that the library didn’t have the books would be the end of their complaints, but “then it seemed to morph.”
Activists fumed at board meetings after Glidden, the library’s director, said she would order some of the books if enough patrons requested them. They demanded that the board pass a policy promising not to order controversial books, or — if they did — to place them in an adults-only room so that children are not “accidentally exposed” while browsing the library stacks. They asked the library to judge books “under God’s standards and not of the world’s standards,” according to emails obtained through open records requests.
“What they are looking for us to do is say we will never get a book that offends them personally, which is pretty hard to define, and not really the point of the library,” Colson, the trustee, said.
Activists also cited a bill, HB 666, that had recently cleared the Idaho House, but died in the Senate. The bill would have removed an exemption in state law that protects employees of schools, museums, universities and libraries from prosecution for “disseminating material harmful to minors.” The exemption’s intent is to protect educators, curators and librarians from criminal charges over explicit or risqué art and literature that they consider to have merit.
Book ban supporters argued HB 666 was needed because the Boundary County library was “hiding” behind the exemption. But censorship opponents disagreed.
“They would rather that nobody have access to books rather than one or two people have access to gay content or content written by people of color,” said Jessica Tingley, who has organized demonstrations in support of the Boundary County library.
‘They’re spreading lies’
Glidden, who previously worked at a library in neighboring Sandpoint, Idaho, started in December as the Boundary County library director and reviewed its policies to ensure they were up to date.
In June, the board of trustees voted to update the rules for selecting materials, requiring a variety of viewpoints to be reflected in the titles on the shelves. The updated materials selection policy also vowed that the library will “not place materials on ‘closed shelves’ or label items to protect the public from their content.” It passed by a vote of 3-1, with one member absent.
Then the pressure ramped up.
Capurso, a real estate agent and activist, arranged a meeting in July to organize a recall of the library trustees, accusing board members of voting to expose children to “adult only” material “without listening to ‘We the People’ regarding their actions before their votes.”
“We need to avert this travesty being promulgated by the far left, not just here, but all over our nation,” Capurso, who calls herself a “patriot journalist” wrote on a blog affiliated with the American Redoubt, a far-right migration movement seeking to establish a safe haven in the Northwest for conservative Christians.
At least three times in the last three months, a woman has blown a shofar horn outside the library, according to Glidden and security footage obtained by NBC News. (Shofars, typically made from ram’s horns, are part of Jewish traditions, but Christians have increasingly used them as a message of spiritual warfare.)
Glidden said people have falsely accused her of “grooming children for pedophiles,” and her staff has started dining and shopping in neighboring counties to avoid conflicts. Critics of the library have called the censorship conflict a “spiritual battle for the hearts and minds of children,” on Facebook.
“They’re spreading lies, they’re destroying lives and they’re doing it with impunity,” Glidden said. “They’re putting on this cloak of religion, but I’m not sure what god they worship.”
Library trustee Kenneth Blockhan, who said he considers himself religious, said he has concerns about the amount of discussion of LGBTQ issues in public school curricula. But he said he is disturbed by the call to ban books from the public library and believes it’s part of a larger movement to impose puritan standards on the community.
“The library is not a day care,” he said. “If you’re a parent, you are the responsible party for checking out books that your children need to read. It’s not the library’s responsibility. It is the parent’s responsibility to make sure that their children are not getting a hold of the bad stuff or whatever to sit there and read.”
At the library’s Aug. 18 board meeting, two days after Glidden announced resignation plans, multiple people reiterated their complaints about how Glidden and the trustees have dealt with book ban requests. Several people cited Bible verses and warned board members and Glidden that they’re bringing a curse on themselves.
Glidden said she plans to stay on until Sept. 10. She said she and her family are still plotting where they will go next, but she vowed it would not be a red state.
“This is a publicly funded library,” Glidden said. “That means what they’re ultimately going to demand that I do is actually end up being in violation of the Constitution,” she said, referring to the First Amendment’s protection of free speech. “I’d rather be someone accused of having naughty books than be in violation of the Constitution.” | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/conservative-activists-want-to-ban-400-books-from-a-library-but-they-arent-even-on/article_d265f000-234c-11ed-80f5-53161b3d2baa.html | 2022-08-24T03:57:45Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/conservative-activists-want-to-ban-400-books-from-a-library-but-they-arent-even-on/article_d265f000-234c-11ed-80f5-53161b3d2baa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BENTON COUNTY, Wash. — Charges are pending against a 31-year-old freight truck driver from Kent following a collision with a motorcycle at the I-82 and State Route 397 intersection before 9 a.m. on August 22. He was headed west on I-82, about a mile south of Kennewick, heading to exit to SR 397, according to Washington State Patrol.
A 43-year-old Kennewick man was headed south on his motorcycle on SR 397 when the truck driver crossed 397 and re-entered traffic heading west on I-82. WSP reports the truck collided with the motorcycle, totaling it and injuring the motorcyclist. He was taken to a nearby hospital.
The truck driver was not hurt. He had worn his seatbelt, and the motorcyclist was wearing a proper helmet. WSP is still investigating the cause. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/freight-truck-collides-with-motorcyclist-on-i-82/article_92c149f0-226f-11ed-85e4-8fc7cc31f6aa.html | 2022-08-24T03:57:51Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/freight-truck-collides-with-motorcyclist-on-i-82/article_92c149f0-226f-11ed-85e4-8fc7cc31f6aa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lamar Public Schools superintendent resigns
Board accepts resignation in special meeting Tuesday
LAMAR - In a district rocked by a recent middle school sexual assault investigation, the superintendent has resigned, School Board President Michelle Brown announced in a special meeting.
Superintendent Jay Holland resigned Monday, and the school board members accepted the resignation in the Tuesday meeting.
In July, more than 40 people showed up at a school board meeting to protest the handling of a sexual assault investigation in the middle school.
Board members voted unanimously to accept Holland's resignation in a short meeting Tuesday before going into an executive session.
Board President Michelle Brown spoke at the Tuesday meeting before the board members voted.
"As of yesterday, Jay Holland resigned as superintendent of Lamar Public Schools."
Previous coverage:Parents remain upset about Lamar Middle School sex assault investigation
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Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen represented families of students who alleged sexual assault and sexual harassment in the middle school. Parents were not happy with 10-day suspensions, McCutchen said.
The Arkansas State Police declined to file charges against anyone, McCutchen said.
Holland recently stated that the Arkansas Crimes Against Children Division of the Arkansas State Police "found all allegations of sexual abuse to be unsubstantiated."
A spokesman for the state police said he could not comment on any case of sexual assault involving juveniles. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/23/lamar-school-superintendent-arkansas-jay-holland-resigns/7880824001/ | 2022-08-24T03:57:53Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/23/lamar-school-superintendent-arkansas-jay-holland-resigns/7880824001/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA VALLEY, Wash. - The Grandview, Sunnyside and Yakima school districts are all giving their students free school supplies this school year to help get rid of some stress for parents.
The Grandview School District is giving basic school supplies to all their students except for backpacks. The Yakima School District is giving supplies to all their students as well in schools during open houses. The Sunnyside School District is giving supplies to grades kindergarten through eighth. Older students may also be required to buy additional supplies depending on their classes.
Maria Hernandez the Principal at Outlook Elementary in Sunnyside said they chose to continue to give their students school supplies even after the pandemic so they can continue to support parents and students.
"Kids still need supplies and we are still trying to be supportive of our parents and taking something off of their plate in order to have our kids be prepared," Hernandez said.
The Sunnyside School District used the emergency covid funding last year to pay for the school supplies. According to the Communications Director for the district Jessica Morgan, this time it is using budget money.
"Using taxpayers dollars directly for student benefit so that's another reason we felt it was a good idea and justifiable," Morgan said.
This is the first time the Grandview School District is giving their students school supplies and it said it is using emergency covid funding to pay for supplies. The Yakima School District got donations for school supplies, some grants, and used some money from their general fund.
Mother of two Amber Betts said getting school supplies has been a big help. Her oldest son Daniel is starting kindergarten this year at YSD.
"Everything matters right now, every dollar counts," Betts said.
It also helps her save time and not have to worry about buying the wrong thing.
"It just takes 10,000 years for him to choose anything," Betts said about her son. "You'll have a red and a green pencil and he's just, he'll lay them all out and he will look at them and then he will grab one and then he will put it back and grab another one."
Betts son got his school supplies already and she said he was super excited.
"He took it all out and then he decided that his little two year old brother is gonna be the student and he's gonna be the teacher," she said.
She added that she likes the statement YSD sent to parents saying "every school will equitably provide your child with school supplies for the 2022-2023 school year."
Betts said being equitable helps remove some of the stigma behind not being able to afford school supplies or someone else having cooler things.
"It doesn't feel like you're standing in line because you can't afford it or whatever it's more of a this is what we're doing."
The Toppenish and Mount Adams school districts are only giving school supplies to students identified as homeless. The Toppenish School District also tries to make supplies to students in need available year round. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/local-school-districts-giving-students-free-school-supplies/article_bc5b83aa-2339-11ed-90d4-976c6e23179f.html | 2022-08-24T03:57:57Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/local-school-districts-giving-students-free-school-supplies/article_bc5b83aa-2339-11ed-90d4-976c6e23179f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Good Samaritan Clinic adapts to meet patients' needs
The Good Samaritan Clinic has adapted over the years to serve its patients.
Patti Kimbrough, the nonprofit's executive director, has been with the clinic for five years. During that time she has seen the hours that the clinic is open fluctuate to try to help the most patients. She has also seen the Latino population jump from 30% of her clients to 50% of the patient base.
To meet the needs of the rising Latino population, the clinic has invested in hiring medical assistants who speak Spanish.
“Because this is really just important for our patient base. We want them to trust, and in order to trust we have to try to meet their needs, and language is often the barrier," Kimbrough said.
Albertina Almanza agreed with Kimbrough and said having people on staff who speak Spanish builds trust with Spanish-speaking patients.
Almanza works at the front desk and also acts as a translator when needed.
“It’s always great to help the community that doesn’t speak English," Almanza said. She later added, “Just to let them know that they have the help that they need."
Kimbrough said it just makes sense to have Spanish speakers on staff.
"I see that this is really a need in our community and that’s just what our community, what our fabric looks like," Kimbrough said. "We’ve really tried hard to try to meet the needs of our Hispanic families."
The Good Samaritan Clinic helps people who do not have insurance and also those who have catastrophic insurance with a deductible of $1,000 or more, Kimbrough said.
The Good Samaritan Clinic spawned from the dreams of parishioners at St. Paul United Methodist Church, who originally opened the clinic to serve people once a week.
In 2003, the clinic became a nonprofit. It is one of 17 charitable clinics left in the state.
The clinic has lasted through a recession and a pandemic among countless other challenges.
“... God’s taken care of this little clinic for nearly 20 years, so why were we going to stop you know trusting in the process at this point," Kimbrough said.
The Good Samaritan Clinic served 6,470 people in 2021, according to information from the clinic. The clinic offers primary medical services, adult care, walk-in clinic hours, prescription assistance, eye examinations, dental care and simple extractions, counseling, patient education programs and care for kids by appointment.
Alex Gladden is a University of Arkansas graduate. She previously reported for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Jonesboro Sun before joining the Times Record. She can be contacted at agladden@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/24/good-samaritan-clinic-adapts-meet-patients-needs/10292046002/ | 2022-08-24T03:57:59Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/24/good-samaritan-clinic-adapts-meet-patients-needs/10292046002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WAILUKU, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Farmers on Maui who have been impacted by the overpopulation of Axis deer may be eligible for an emergency loan of up to $150,000 to deal with the economic impacts of the invasive species.
The $150,000 will be the maximum amount loaned out to impacted farmers, according to the Hawaii Board of Agriculture. The terms of the loan and the amount handed out will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Loan applications will be accepted through the end of the year.
Some considerations the Board will make as it determined loan terms include the historical performance of the farm and the “projected cash flow based on reasonable assumptions of revenue and expenses.”
The interest rate for the loans will be 3%, the Board said. The credit elsewhere requirement will be waived for loans of $100,000 or less. But those applying for more than $100,000 will need at least one credit denial before being eligible for the loan.
Anyone needing $50,000 or less can apply for micro-loans which involve less paperwork and swifter processing, according to the Board.
The three-year residency requirement will not apply.
Anyone looking for more information about the emergency loan program is asked to call the Agricultural Loan Division in Honolulu at 808-973-9460. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/emergency-loans-up-to-150-000-available-to-maui-farmers-impacted-by-axis-deer-infestation/article_e77af618-2354-11ed-9c96-6758541d3427.html | 2022-08-24T03:58:02Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/emergency-loans-up-to-150-000-available-to-maui-farmers-impacted-by-axis-deer-infestation/article_e77af618-2354-11ed-9c96-6758541d3427.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE, Wash. — Wapato resident Clifton Frank Peter was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for three murders committed on the Yakama Nation reservation in June 2019. Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced the 37-year-old, stating the murders were “horrible if not monstrous.”
Court proceedings discussed Peter’s criminal history. He was convicted for first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon and motor vehicle theft in 2011, serving 36 months in prison. Two years later, he served another nine months for the second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
Peter was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, to which he pleaded guilty. The murders took place on June 1, 2019. Peter spent the day at home, drinking and playing video games, according to the press release from the Department of Justice. He became notably upset at the game, so much so that his family decided to leave the home.
As Peter’s mother tried to leave, he attacked her and took her car. He backed out of the driveway, nearly hitting someone, according to information from court proceedings. In response, Peter got out of the car and shot the driver with a shotgun, killing them.
Court proceedings said Peter then got back in his mother’s car, and drove north until he rear-ended another car. He got out of his mom’s car and shot the two people inside, killing them both.
He tried to hide the shotgun, according to the DOJ release, then walked to a family member’s house. He told them he had “done something bad,” but they didn’t let him inside. He was soon arrested.
“This case was senseless, pointless, a horrible act – leaving three people dead and their families traumatized for life,” said Judge Bastian.
Following the 50 year sentence, Peter will have to serve five years of court supervision and will owe $86,170 in restitution.
“Three people are dead. Two children have been orphaned without any immediate family in the United States. A family patriarch will never see his grandchildren graduate from high school or walk his daughter down the aisle,” said U.S. Attorney Vanessa Waldref.
“Violence like this is not normal, and it cannot be normalized… I commend the collaborative efforts of the Yakama Nation Police Department, the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office, the Washington State Patrol, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their seamless partnership in this case, which resulted in a significant sentence. But for the families of Mr. Peter’s victims, nothing will ever be the same again. No sentence could ever bring back their beloved family members, but I hope there is some comfort in knowing that today, the Court removed from the Yakama Nation a dangerous offender whose hair-trigger response to being angry at a video game was to murder three people in cold blood.” | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/wapato-man-sentenced-to-50-years-for-triple-yakama-nation-murder/article_510d470a-2348-11ed-89d8-17eb0343acb1.html | 2022-08-24T03:58:03Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/wapato-man-sentenced-to-50-years-for-triple-yakama-nation-murder/article_510d470a-2348-11ed-89d8-17eb0343acb1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
3 bold predictions for Arkansas football's 2022 season, including 'College GameDay'
Arkansas football's 2022 season begins Sept. 3 when the No. 23 Razorbacks kick off one of the country's toughest schedules with No. 22 Cincinnati.
In coach Sam Pittman's third season, Arkansas looks to improve upon last year's 8-5 record. Thanks in part to solid transfer additions and the return of quarterback KJ Jefferson, expectations are high for the Razorbacks. They were picked to finish third in the SEC West behind Alabama and Texas A&M at SEC Media Days.
What's in store for Arkansas in 2022? Here are three predictions for the season.
Arkansas sets a school record for total offense
One of the concerns for Arkansas is making up for the loss of receiver Treylon Burks. Concerns about Jefferson's abilities as a passer when he doesn't have the reliable hands of Burks lining up beside him have appeared on the national stage.
Arkansas has a pair of talented transfer additions in Matt Landers and Jadon Haselwood, and coaches believe returner Warren Thompson has made major strides in preseason practice. Throw in an experienced offensive line, Jefferson's running ability and a loaded running back room, and Arkansas appears to have the pieces to put together an impressive offense.
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Last season, the Razorbacks collected 5,742 yards of total offense, the fourth-most in school history. In 2022, Arkansas will surpass that total and best its record of 6,273 set in 2010.
Raheim Sanders has best season by an RB under Sam Pittman
In Pittman's first two seasons, Trelon Smith led the running back room. He posted 710 rushing yards in 2020 and 598 in 2021. In the latter, Jefferson was the team's leading rusher. But Trelon Smith was lost to the transfer portal, creating an opening for another back.
Arkansas' depth at running back and a veteran offensive line mean the Razorbacks have plenty of tools for a strong ground game. Pittman said sophomore Raheim "Rocket" Sanders will be the feature back, giving him plenty of opportunities out of the backfield. Even when junior Dominique Johnson returns from his knee injury, Pittman said a "fresh" Sanders will get the majority of the carries.
While Jefferson will lead the team in rushing for the second consecutive year, Sanders will have the best season by a running back since Pittman's tenure began and top Smith's career-high rushing total.
Arkansas football is on ESPN 'College GameDay' again
Last season, Arkansas ended a 10-year "College GameDay" drought when the ESPN pregame show came to the Razorbacks' matchup with Georgia in Athens. Arkansas then lost 37-0.
With some marquee matchups on its schedule, the Razorbacks might have a chance at a better showing this season. Weeks 4 and 5 in particular look promising. Arkansas plays No. 7 Texas A&M at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Sept. 22. If "GameDay" doesn't spend Week 3 with the Aggies when they play Miami, the SEC clash is a good candidate.
The next week, Arkansas hosts No. 1 Alabama. If both teams were to enter Week 5 undefeated, "GameDay
would be hard-pressed to find a better site. Fayetteville hasn't welcomed the "GameDay" crew since 2006 for a game against Tennessee.
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks for the Southwest Times Record and USA Today Network. You can follow her on Twitter @christinalong00 or email her at clong@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/08/24/arkansas-football-predictions-2022-college-gameday-kj-jefferson-sam-pittman/7846154001/ | 2022-08-24T03:58:05Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/08/24/arkansas-football-predictions-2022-college-gameday-kj-jefferson-sam-pittman/7846154001/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I-90 - Maintenance on I-90 will delay traffic heading west between Ellensburg and Cle Elum from Monday, August 22 through Friday, August 26. Lanes will be closed and a 12-foot width restriction will be in place. Crews will be repairing and improving the roadway. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/maintenance-to-delay-traffic-on-i-90/article_5ce381dc-234a-11ed-a352-379f2c3730b3.html | 2022-08-24T03:58:09Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/maintenance-to-delay-traffic-on-i-90/article_5ce381dc-234a-11ed-a352-379f2c3730b3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Goldman Sachs with their what to expects preview of Federal Reserve Chair Powell's speech at Jackson Hole on Friday.
the message will be the same as laid out in his July news conference and in the minutes of the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting
"He is likely to balance that message by stressing that the FOMC remains committed to bringing inflation down and that upcoming policy decisions will depend on incoming data," the note said, adding that policymakers saw the easing of financial conditions since July as unhelpful to keeping the economy on a below-potential growth trajectory.
Via Reuters
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Earlier:
- Morgan Stanley says Powell's speech at Jackson Hole could be supportive of the USD
- While we await Federal Reserve Chair Powell speaking on Friday - preview
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's central bank symposium is at Jackson Hole is August 25-27.
The topic this year is: "Reassessing Constraints on the Economy and Policy" | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/goldman-sachs-expect-powell-to-reiterate-the-case-for-slower-pace-of-tightening-on-friday-20220824/ | 2022-08-24T03:58:13Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/goldman-sachs-expect-powell-to-reiterate-the-case-for-slower-pace-of-tightening-on-friday-20220824/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated 1 hour ago - Politics & Policy
Pat Ryan wins Democratic primary in newly-drawn New York district
Democrat Pat Ryan on Tuesday won the Democratic primary for the newly drawn 18th congressional district in New York.
Why it matters: Ryan, who is also vying to finish the term of former Rep. Antonio Delgado, who left Congress to become New York's lieutenant governor in May in the neighboring 19th congressional district.
- If Ryan is the winner of the special election in the 19th district, he will complete Delgado's term, which runs until the end of the year. He is facing off against GOP opponent Marcus Mollinaro in that race.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story published that Ryan won the 19th congressional district special election. That race has not yet been called. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/new-york-special-election-results-ny-19 | 2022-08-24T03:58:27Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/new-york-special-election-results-ny-19 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Participant Isabella Alexander is the 2022 2nd place winner for The Great Duck Race during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Sweetwater County resident Lyneen Murphy's took the People's Choice Award, "The Leader of the Quack" during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Fesitival in Green River.
The Westenskow Family won the John Wesley Fowl Award during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
The Green River Trona Valley Federal Community Union took 2nd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Ace Hardware in Green River took 3rd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Rock Springs resident Josh Huseth took 1st place in The Great Duck Race at the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
Participant Isabella Alexander is the 2022 2nd place winner for The Great Duck Race during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
Sweetwater County resident Lyneen Murphy's took the People's Choice Award, "The Leader of the Quack" during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Fesitival in Green River.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Green River Hampton Inn and Suites won the Mallard Award during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 7th annual River Festival in Green River.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Westenskow Family won the John Wesley Fowl Award during the Duckorating for Bills event at the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Hunter/Rosene Family took 1st place in the Flaunt Your Fish event during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
The Green River Trona Valley Federal Community Union took 2nd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Photo Courtesy of Green River Chamber of Commerce
Ace Hardware in Green River took 3rd place in the Flaunt Your Fish competition during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River on Saturday, Aug. 20.
GREEN RIVER – Communities, in and out of Sweetwater County, joined as one during the 17th annual River Festival in Green River, Friday, Aug. 19 and Saturday, Aug. 20.
One of the main attractions was The Great Duck Race. Participants stood in the river to gather the most colored, rubber ducks in minutes.
The Great Duck Race winners include:
1st Place Josh Huseth
2nd Place Isabella Alexander
3rd Place Cynthia Truong
According to Jesica Hunter, office clerk for the Green River Chamber of Commerce, “The Great Duck Race has been going on for many years and the proceeds this year are going to The Friends of the Greenbelt.
The Friends of the Greenbelt is a non-profit organization for the Greenbelt.
Businesses and individuals used their artistic skills and imagination to decorate purchased ducks. The “Leader of the Quack,” which is a People’s Choice Award, was determined by the duck with the most money in votes.
Duckorating for Bills winners include:
Leader of the Quack: Lyneen Murphy
Mallard Award: Hampton Inn & Suites Green River
John Wesley Fowl: Westenskow Family
Hunter pointed out that this was the first year for “Duckorating for Bills” and the proceeds are going to the Sweetwater County Food Bank.
Hunter said that “Flaunt Your Fish” has been a tradition since 2017 and 50% of the proceeds go to Seedskadee Trout Unlimited.
Participants had the opportunity to paint and decorate wood carved fish for the event. Their fish were displayed on both sides of the bridge, entering Expedition Island.
Flaunt your Fish winners include:
1st Place: Hunter/Rosene Family
2nd Place: Trona Valley FCU Green River
3rd Place: Ace Hardware Green River
“We think that the events turned out great,” Hunter said. “There were so many wonderful entries.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/a-ducking-good-time-was-had-at-the-river-festival/article_05653c18-2352-11ed-bad9-439457762e97.html | 2022-08-24T04:06:04Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rocketminer/a-ducking-good-time-was-had-at-the-river-festival/article_05653c18-2352-11ed-bad9-439457762e97.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE, Wash —
City leaders have deemed Spokane's housing supply an emergency crisis.
“Housing effects everybody," Spokane City Planning Director Spencer Gardner said. "Somebody has a child, a brother or sister, a parent who is concerned about their housing situation.”
Through a July council-approved ordinance, city planners have created the 'Building Opportunity and Choices for All' pilot program.
“Working through a lot of the code problems we knew builders were running into we discovered that our regular process was just too slow," Gardner explained. "But in an emergency, we need to make fast action in order to address the problem. So this interim ordinance allows us to make some of those changes immediately.”
Tuesday, the city hosted an open house at the Central Library for people wanting to learn more about the housing program.
In the audience were realtors, architects and prospective property owners.
When considering the project’s one year timeline, some raised an eyebrow to the possibility of seeing actual builds within the year.
“At the architecture firm that I work at, almost every project we work on his was in the works for at least two years, sometimes five years, some of them have been in the works for over 10 years," Saul Hansen, a revit technician with Bernardo Wills Architects said. "And so to get something turned around in a year, is pretty tricky. That's a tall order. And so everyone that was sitting there kind of spoke to that, like, 'how is this going to work? Is there going to be streamlined approval processes to help get a bigger window?'”
Gardner said over the next year, there might not be a lot of shovels going into the ground, but one of the goals of the program is to lay down the foundation towards more permanent housing codes that include multi-family options.
“At the end of the one-year period, in July of 2023, we will have done the necessary work through community outreach, through talking with builders through going through the process that set out in city code to then make those permanent changes,” Gardner said
Currently, the ordinance and program are set to expire at the end of next July with potential to extend an additional year.
The city will be hosting two more open house meetings. Wednesday at 5:30 p.m at The Hive. and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. over Zoom.
The city has also created tax-exemption incentives to encourage more multi-family home developers. Eligibility requires certain location, pricing and four or more units of housing, which would include fourplexes.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — A Wapato man was sentenced to 600 months in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to three counts of second-degree murder earlier in 2022.
According to a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington, Clifton Frank Peter, 37, pleaded guilty to the three counts of murder earlier this year, which Judge Stanley Bastian described as "horrible, if not monstrous."
“This case was senseless, pointless, [and] a horrible act, leaving three people dead and their families traumatized for life," Bastian said.
Information disclosed during court proceedings revealed Peter to be an enrolled member of the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima Nation. They also revealed his violent criminal history.
According to the release, Peter was convicted in Yakima County Superior Court for first-degree robbery with a weapon and vehicle theft in 2011, spending 36 months in prison. He was convicted again for second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and sentenced to nine months in prison in 2013.
The district attorney's office went on to report that the murders took place on June 1, 2019, within the external boundaries of the Yakima Nation. The incident reportedly started after Peter grew angry while playing a video game. Peter had spent the day drinking, according to the district attorney's office.
After Peter began yelling, his family members decided to leave him alone. Soon after, Peter attacked his mother as she attempted to leave and took her car. Court proceedings said that as Peter backed out of the driveway, he almost collided with another car being driven by the first victim in the murders.
Peter then exited his mother's car and shot the victim with a shotgun. The first victim died from the blast. After the first murder, Peter got back in the car and traveled northbound before slamming into another vehicle occupied by the next two victims. Peter exited the vehicle and murdered the two victims by a shotgun blast.
According to the press release, after committing the murders, Peter attempted to hide the weapon before walking into the residence of a family member, saying he had "done something bad."
The family member refused to let Peter in. Soon after, deputies with the Yakima County Sheriff's Office and officers from the Yakima Nation Police Department arrived and apprehended Peter.
“Three people are dead. Two children have been orphaned without any immediate family in the United States. A family patriarch will never see his grandchildren graduate from high school or walk his daughter down the aisle,” said U.S. Attorney Vanessa Waldref. “Violence like this is not normal, and it cannot be normalized. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will continue to prosecute violence throughout Eastern Washington, in the big cities and small towns, on the farms and on the Palouse, and on every Indian Nation. I commend the collaborative efforts of the Yakama Nation Police Department, the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office, the Washington State Patrol, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their seamless partnership in this case, which resulted in a significant sentence. But for the families of Mr. Peter’s victims, nothing will ever be the same again. No sentence could ever bring back their beloved family members, but I hope there is some comfort in knowing that today, the Court removed from the Yakama Nation a dangerous offender whose hair-trigger response to being angry at a video game was to murder three people in cold blood.”
“The FBI, along with our partners, have made combating violent crime in Washington a priority,” said Richard A. Collodi, Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Field Office of the FBI. “Three innocent people were murdered in what can only be described as utterly senseless acts. Today’s sentence is particularly resonant, given the nature and violence of Mr. Peter’s crimes.”
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Nearly 30% of Washington's students work jobs while attending high school.
Now, schools across Washington State will allow students who are 16-years-old and older to earn elective credits through paid work.
Students will be allowed to earn up to four elective credits through work experience and no more than two of those credits may be earned in a year.
"I mean it's kind of exciting, I think it's something that should be done for a while,” said Daniel Adwale, an employee with Spokane Parks and Recreation. “I know a lot of friends that are working and some people are basically working full job days after school constantly. It's almost something that should've been here a long time."
In a statement, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction says they hope this new program will encourage students to explore different interests they choose for themselves through paid work.
"I think it'll be great for Spokane Public Schools because it provides students an alternative to learn something they might enjoy doing in the future. So, from that class they can find something that interests them and then they can move on,” said Sandra Jarrad, the executive director of communications for Spokane Public Schools.
Employers hope that this encourages more students to go out and apply for jobs.
Jhon Goodwin, the owner of Summit Kitchen, said, "I think it's going to open up the job field quite a bit. As everyone knows there's a challenge to get people in the workforce right now and getting them to stick."
To earn a high school diploma in Washington, students must earn a total of 24 credits.
Seven of those credits are for required electives.
According to Jarrard, a student can work a job to cover one of seven required electives, such as music or PE.
"If I had that option I would be searching around. I would be more exposed at building my resume in high school and job experience would be awesome,” said Nate Clark, a Rockwood Bakery employee.
The paid work experience must be verified by their school to get the credits.
To get verification, each student's school will check employment by reaching out to employers to monitor student progress.
Students who attend Spokane Public Schools will also be required to report what they've learned.
OSPI hopes to have this program in place statewide for the 2023-24 school year.
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LOS ANGELES — Actor Anne Heche has been laid to rest at a storied Los Angeles cemetery alongside many Hollywood luminaries, her family said Tuesday.
Heche was cremated and her ashes were placed in a mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery nearly two weeks after she was declared dead at a hospital from injuries suffered in a fiery car crash.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Heche's son Homer Laffoon said he and her other son Atlas Tupper “are convinced our Mom would love the site we have chosen for her; it's beautiful, serene and she will be among her Hollywood peers."
The cemetery has in recent years become a cultural hub for film screenings, musical performances and festivals.
Laffoon went to see the band My Morning Jacket there after his mother’s death, with tickets bought before she died. He loved the vibrancy of the location, and took it as a sign that her grave should be there.
“Hollywood Forever is a living place," Laffoon's statement said.
A small private memorial will be held once Heche's headstone is etched.
“She was our Mom, but the kindness and the outpouring of the past few days reminded us that she also belongs to her fans, to the entertainment community, and now, to the ages,” the statement said.
Founded in 1899 and located near the Paramount Pictures lot, the cemetery is home to the graves and tombs of actors including Judy Garland and Douglas Fairbanks, and of musicians including Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone.
Heche's spot in the mausoleum in the cemetery's Garden of Legends is near that of Mickey Rooney, and faces a lake where Burt Reynolds' remains were recently relocated.
Heche, 53, was among the biggest film stars of the late 1990s, starring opposite actors including Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, and had worked consistently in movies and television for more than three decades. But personal turmoil, which she described in a memoir and interviews, often followed her.
On Aug. 5, her car jumped a curb and smashed into a West Los Angeles home. Both the car and the home burst into flames. She was declared brain dead on Aug. 11, and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs could be donated.
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